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FAFSA’s real-time fraud tool: What students need to know before they apply

The U.S. Department of Education quietly rolled out an automated identity-verification feature on the FAFSA portal Sunday, screening every applicant in real time as part of an expanding effort to ...
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FAFSA adds real-time ID checks to fight fraud

The U.S. Department of Education has launched a real-time fraud detection system for FAFSA applicants, requiring those flagged as high risk to verify their identities with government-issued ID before ...