Democrats opposed Republicans on both issues, arguing that their attention should be focused on other issues such as the ...

Investigators say the scams ran for 10 years. In some cases, would-be students were complicit in the scam. Federal investigators say two Detroiters created separate fraud schemes to bilk more than $12 ...

About 6.6 million federal student loan borrowers were 24 years or younger as of September 2025. These borrowers held about $94 billion in student loan debt, with the average borrower in this age group ...

Although student aid is not impacted by the government shutdown, some local college officials say they are concerned that any FAFSA system hiccups could go unaddressed without people available to help ...

Two Detroit residents are accused of stealing more than $12 million from the U.S. Department of Education through fraudulent federal student aid applications. The FBI, the U.S. Department of Education ...

Federal education officials say an aggressive overhaul of student-aid security has stopped more than $1 billion in fraudulent applications in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term — a ...

“American citizens have to present an ID to purchase a ticket to travel or to rent a car – it’s only right that they should present an ID to access tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund their ...

Colleges and universities are facing a new fraud tactic that has made them more susceptible to digital theft. Known as ghost students, hackers are exploiting pandemic-related vulnerabilities to steal ...

Many financial aid advisers are worried that the Trump administration’s latest effort to bolster identity verification in the student aid system could have unintended consequences. Instead of simply ...

Time is growing short for parents of high school seniors (and those returning to college for the 2026-27 school year) to file ...

Imagine discovering that someone has not only stolen your identity, but used it to enroll in college, collect thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, and then vanished — leaving you to clean up ...

Students starting college next year will face a dramatically different federal financial aid system than the one their older siblings and parents encountered, experts say, due to changes enacted this ...