Later this month, the Senate is expected to consider the No Aid for Ghost Students Act (S. 4428), which would authorize the Department of Education to create a fraud detection system for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), effectively codifying the real-time fraud detection system the agency has already implemented under Executive Order 14395. The Senate bill is its version of the House bill of the same name (H.R. 7892) that passed in June.
NAICU raised a number of concerns as the House considered its bill, many of which were addressed in the final version. Among the issues raised included recommendations to strengthen and provide clarity to the bill’s language, including the addition of certain identity verification standards instead of leaving that process entirely up to the Secretary’s discretion.
However, the final version of the bill also included a new provision…
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