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GSEU Benefits
Your employment-related benefits are negotiated by New York state and your bargaining unit, GSEU (Graduate StudentEmployee Union). These are your benefits if both these are true:
- Your affiliation to UB is with the state
- Your negotiating unit is 28
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New York State 529 College Savings Program
This Program allows participants to save money for their selected beneficiary's qualifying higher education expenses at any eligible post-secondary school in the United States and abroad.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
As a New York State employee, you may qualify to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).
The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on your direct loans after you have made 120 qualifying monthly payments under an accepted repayment plan and while working full-time for an eligible employer.
Eligible Employees
To qualify for PSLF, you must:
- Be employed by a U.S. federal, state, local, or tribal government or qualifying not-for-profit organization (federal service includes U.S. military service);
- Work full-time for that agency or organization;
- Have Direct Loans (or consolidate other federal student loans into a Direct Loan);
- Repay your loans under an income-driven repayment plan or a 10-year Standard Repayment Plan; and
- Make a total of 120 qualifying monthly payments that need not be consecutive.
Application Process
Both digital and manual PSLF form completion is available.
As part of the form completion, your employment will need to be certified by Human Resources.
- You will need to provide the correct email address for the authorizing office: ub-hr@buffalo.edu
- Human Resources will receive an email from DocuSign on behalf of the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid.
- Once you and Human Resources have digitally signed the form, it will be electronically submitted for processing.
Resources
Use the Correct Email Address
Using a different address could cause delays in your employment verification.
You can print out a pre-filled PSLF form or download and print a blank PDF of the form.
If you choose to complete a downloaded PDF of the PSLF form, it must be submitted with acceptable signatures from both you and your employer.
- Complete, print and sign your form.
- Provide your form to Human Resources via the address below and include instruction to return the form to you.
Human Resources
University at Buffalo
Townsend Hall
205 Hayes Road
Buffalo, NY 14214
Resources
Completing your PSLF form in this manner may add additional time to the processing of your form.
Questions?
Customer Service
Human Resources
Townsend Hall, South Campus
Phone: 716-645-7777
Contact the Benefits Team
The State Benefit Services Team is available to answer your questions. Use our contact information below to access all team members for the fastest response.
Department Leadership
Contact our department leaders for additional assistance.
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Lissa Jasinowski
Assistant Director
Benefits and Work Life Balance
Phone: (716) 645-4488
Email: lmt22@buffalo.edu
