A bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation to prevent fraudsters scamming the federal student aid system for ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington is moving to shut down “ghost students” who use stolen identities to siphon off ...

Starting this week, students may encounter a new identity-verification step while filing out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as the Trump administration continues to prioritize cracking ...

A new financial aid tool is projected to save taxpayers $1 billion by stopping “ghost student” fraud, the Trump ...

The Department of Education announced a new anti-fraud program that requires certain FAFSA applicants identified as a high ...

Scammers are deploying increasingly sophisticated tactics to steal money and federal financial aid from hardworking Americans ...

New fraud-prevention measures are intended to ensure the integrity of the federal student aid system, though experts warn ...

The U.S. Department of Education quietly rolled out an automated identity-verification feature on the FAFSA portal Sunday, ...

The Trump administration launches a real-time FAFSA fraud detection tool to fight ghost student scams tied to fabricated and ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — A serial scammer will spend over two years in prison after she defrauded the U.S. Department of Education out of nearly $1 million in financial aid by enrolling fake students in college ...

Last year, the U.S. Department of Education found tens of millions of dollars had been wrongfully awarded, including $30 million to dead people over three years. The largest community college in ...

The Department of Education announced Thursday that it has saved American taxpayers more than $1 billion by aggressively eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse within federal student aid programs. The ...