Tuition Assistance

Message from the JTR

For our newly transferred employees, welcome!

The T.A.P. office is located in the Benefits Complex located off of the main aisle at N3. Tuition Assistance applications are in the rack beside the door, in the top slot and also can be downloaded from the JAS website at https://www.uawgmjas.org/j/ under "ONLINE DOCUMENTS". If you have any questions, place your name on the call sheet on the door or call 216-265-5282 and leave a message with your name, phone number, shift, work location and a brief message. Please speak slowly as the answering machine is old and the message quality is low.

Who is covered?
At this time, only actively working UAW/GM employees and laid off UAW/GM employees have tuition assistance benefits re-instated. The program is not paying for dependent children scholarship or retiree onsites at this time. If these elements of the program get reinstated in the future, information about them will be posted here.

Effective August 1, 2010 TAP has been reinstated for active employees for course work commencing on or after August 1, 2010.

The UAW-GM Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) provides eligible workers with financial assistance to attend licensed or accredited schools. Course eligibility is limited to High School Completion/Equivalency, two year/four year degree plans of study, and courses taken to maintain/improve skills or knowledge in work related subject matter.

Educational institutions must be pre-approved by TAP administration to be eligible. Payments for tuition and appropriate fees can be made directly to the educational institution or made to the employee as a reimbursement for eligible out-of-pocket expenditures if the institution does not accept vouchers.

To be eligible for tuition assistance, an active worker must:

be a UAW represented GM employee

be on the active employment roll with seniority, or on temporary layoff

Per the memorandum of understanding for entry level employees, employees described by that memorandum are not eligible for tuition assistance. Employees are not eligible for tuition assistance during a medical leave of absence or if they accept a voluntary termination of employment, such as buy-out.

Plan details and benefit levels for active workers are summarized below:

Up to $5,000 per year for degree related courses taken at regionally accredited colleges or universities of which $200 may be used for the purchase of books.

Up to $2,200 per year for other job related courses.

Up to $1,450 per year for personal enhancement courses.

In no event shall the total assistance to an employee exceed $5,000 per twelve-month period (January 1 – December 31). Each course will be reviewed and categorized as to whether it is degree related or job related. Funds will be issued up to the appropriate dollar limits. The spouse or dependent children of a deceased active TAP eligible employee is entitled to utilize the remaining balance of the employee’s current year’s TAP eligibility and will continue as TAP eligible during the remainder of the present GM-UAW contract agreement (September 2011).

Click the link below for info for Inactive (laid off) members to access info in TAP.
https://www.uawgmjas.org/j/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1051&Itemid=33

John Galehouse
UAW 1005 Joint Training Rep.
Parma Metal Center
216-265-5387 Training Office
216-265-5282 TAP Office
NEXTEL 136*845*186
john.galehouse@gm.com