---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 534.203"
title: "5"
number: "534.203"
heading: "Maximum stipends."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/534.203"
---

# §534.203. Maximum stipends.

- (a) Except as authorized under paragraph [(b)](#b) or [(c)](#c) of this section, stipends are to be set by the agency, subject to the maximum stipends prescribed in the following table:
- (b) An agency may pay a student-employee a stipend in excess of the amount prescribed under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section only if the Office of Personnel Management has determined that a higher maximum stipend is warranted for the student-employee.
- (c) Maximum stipends for positions in the Public Health Service in which duty requires intimate contact with persons afflicted with leprosy are increased above the rates prescribed in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section to the same extent that additional pay is provided by Public Health Service Regulations ([42 CFR 22.1](/cfr/42/22.1.md)) for employees subject to the General Schedule ([part 531](/cfr/5/part531.md) of this chapter).
- (d) Overtime pay, maintenance allowances, and other payments in money or kind for a student-employee must be considered as part of the student-employee's stipend for the purposes of this section, and therefore, may not be used to cause the stipend to exceed the maximum stipend established under this section.
- (e) A trainee at a non-Federal hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory who is assigned to a Federal hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory as an affiliate for a part of his or her training may not receive a stipend from the Federal agency other than any maintenance allowance that is provided.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 44 FR 54693, Sept. 21, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1104, 3161(d), 5307, 5351, 5352, 5353, 5376, 5382, 5383, 5384, 5385, 5541, 5550a, sec. 1125 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2004, Pub. L. 108-136, 117 Stat. 1638 (5 U.S.C. 5304, 5382, 5383, 7302; 18 U.S.C. 207); and sec. 2 of Pub. L. 110-372, 122 Stat. 4043 (5 U.S.C. 5304, 5307, 5376).