Alleged ‘Ghost’ Students Accused of Stealing Millions in Financial Aid
"The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to identify scammers who have posed as college students to steal tens of millions in federal student loan and grant dollars over the past five years," The Washington Post reports.
..."The move has been met with a mix of reactions from the higher education community. Some financial aid officers worry that people are still slipping through the cracks, while others say too many people are being inappropriately flagged, said Jill Desjean, director of policy analysis at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
'It remains to be seen how much these efforts are really targeting the right people and how much they could prevent things like what we just heard about with this big investigation,' Desjean said.
She said financial aid fraud has been a growing problem for the last several years. Colleges have complained of being inundated with scammers posing as students and enrolling to steal aid."
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Publication Date: 10/30/2026
