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The UC financial situation is pretty dire, it certainly varies depending on the department (generally the sciences are better off than the humanities), but I would definitely urge you to speak very candidly with your department about finances before accepting any offer. You deserve to know what is really going on. Even if funds have been committed to you, you are still at risk if the money runs out. I'm a current Berkeley grad student, and several students in my department have NOT BEEN PAID their stipends for this semester (should have been paid over a month ago) because our department is simply out of money and scrambling to figure out a way to pay students.