<div dir="ltr"><div>Good morning,</div><div><br></div><div>Same as UCSB, we only use Function 62 or 68 for FWS here at Riverside.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,81,142)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,81,142)">Cesar Lopez
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</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">E-mail:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(122,110,103)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:cesar.lopez@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">cesar.lopez@ucr.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7a6e67"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4x4w2lLxi5P-wJzbxd2evYwKsn6iN0KiS0Kg_uWOTHSaBxOj4GXuHLp35QTXbgb4U5jUoqD5vvWVMsL"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#dbdbdb"><span></span><span></span><br></span></b></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM Julie Portillo <<a href="mailto:julie.portillo@sa.ucsb.edu">julie.portillo@sa.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div>At UCSB the only ones that we have in use are 68 and 62. I will check with our accounting folks as well and share back when I hear more.</div><div>Best,<br>Julie</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table width="300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="font-size:13px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,54,96)"><span style="font-size:16px">Julie Portillo </span><i><font size="1">(she, her, hers, ella)</font></i></span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:4px 0px;vertical-align:top"><font color="#04859b" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Associate Director/Fiscal Manager</b></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:0.65px">Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships</span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:0.65px">Office: (805) 893-4828 <br></span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:0.65px">Email: <a href="mailto:Julie.Portillo@sa.ucsb.edu" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);outline:0px" target="_blank">Julie.Portillo@sa.ucsb.edu</a></span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:6px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top"><img src="https://webfonts.brand.ucsb.edu/WordArt/UC_Santa_Barbara_Wordmark_Navy_RGB.300x30.png" alt="UC Santa Barbara" width="300" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; font-family: "Century Gothic", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM Catherine Yu Li <<a href="mailto:ycli@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">ycli@ucdavis.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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Chart of Accounts: Purpose | Finance & Business</a>, and our long standing practice is to use 68 (HEFC – STAC) - but is there any recent change on accounting side that relaxed rules? Arvin, can you please ask your accounting folks?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ucwsfiscal] Function Code 78 for Federal Work-Study Payroll Transactions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We just found out that our Accounting office changed the default function code for all our Federal Work-study payroll activity to function 78 recently. Before this change, all FWS transactions
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Does your campus use function 78 financial aid for federal work-study student earnings transactions? We had never classified FWS earnings as financial aid in our payroll accounting or tracking
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Appreciate your insight as always.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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