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Comment by alistairSH

Yeah, this confused me as well...

Are these bots successfully completing FAFSA forms to the government?

And the government is successfully generating ISIRs to send to the schools?

If yes, then this is a federal ID verification issue.

If not, why are the schools sending aid payments sand ISIR? Or does CA run its own state-level aid programs that skip the federal forms completely (and botching the ID verification on their own)?

Or are all of these effectively stolen IDs? Where the FAFSA and ISIR are for real people (but people who aren't actually students)?

The article is missing a LOT of details, what a waste of time.

parent alistairSH 1 year ago

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