HSP Casual Pro Fee Funding
Dear PEA members,
Casual HSP and late applicant members are now able to apply for funding to cover a portion of their health science professional fees for 2024.
What are the funding guidelines for 2024?
Recognizing that many health science professionals pay out of pocket for mandatory regulatory body fees, and/or voluntary fees to professional associations that help them enhance their ability to maintain current and best practices, for the current year – 2024 – members may submit a receipt for reimbursement to cover a portion of the fees related to one professional body.
Application for reimbursement will be open to all members until January 31, 2025. Funding is limited and the PEA cannot guarantee sufficient funds will be available to reimburse members after January 31.
Members are encouraged to apply for reimbursement for the highest dollar value fee paid or will pay in 2024, and will be reimbursed up to 30% of a maximum cap, informed by the fee rates set by regulatory bodies and professional associations. Please note that the maximum cap is based on required regulatory professional fees. Voluntary fees in excess of this amount will be capped at 30% of required regulatory professional fees.
As in 2023, insurance and other additional fees are not eligible for reimbursement.
How much will I be reimbursed?
Available funding allows for a 30% reimbursement of professional fees.
Last year’s funding included a “one-time” pro-rated component of $11 million in addition to our pro-rated shared of the bargained $3.1 million funding. PEA’s pro-rated share of funding was a total of $192,606.
For 2024, PEA’s pro-rated share of funding was $6,475. The 2024 program funding consists of unspent funding from the previous year and the 2024 allocation.
How much of the funding did PEA keep for administrative costs?
The program criteria allowed for the PEA to allocate up to 10% of the total funding received (nearly $20,000) to cover administrative overhead to process member reimbursements. To ensure as much funding as possible went to members, PEA made the decision to pay for all administrative overhead costs. No funding dollars were kept by PEA.
How To Apply
To apply for reimbursement of your 2024 health science professional fees, please submit the following three documents to hspfees@pea.org:
A completed 2024 HSP Pro Fees Reimbursement Application Form
A digital copy (picture or scan) of the receipt you are applying to claim reimbursement for.
A completed Direct Deposit Form (this is not required if you allowed PEA to store your information from last year and your banking information is unchanged).
Note: Please use only the email above for your application and DO NOT email or cc: it to any PEA staff directly as this will slow down processing of your application.
We will continue to make full reimbursement of professional fees for all members a priority in future rounds of bargaining.
Thank you,
Idil Farah
Labour Relations Officer
