Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid — ProPublica First, parents turn over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative. Then the student declares financial independence to qualify for tuition aid and scholarships. by Jodi S. Cohen and Melissa Sanchez July 29, 4:07 p.m. CDT The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus pictured on Monday. (Kristen Norman for ProPublica Illinois) ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Dozens of suburban Chicago families, perhaps many more, have been exploiting a legal loophole to win their children need-based college financial aid and scholarships they would not otherwise receive, court records and interviews show.
Bernie said folks would get free college... They are just the first in line to stick their noses into the public trough.
Just more BS...what is happening to this country? If you want to go to college that badly, get a second job, go to night school....or...maybe don't go to college! Plus there are Community Colleges in every state where you can get started basically for free. Screw these kids nowadays....
That would be a teeny tiny drop in the bucket. Kick Backs, Pay to Play, retired folks collecting 2-7 State Pensions, tax and spend democrats, more kick backs, massive corruption, more multiple pensions, projects that are funded and paid out but the projects never seem to materialize, more corruption. You know all the typical Blue State stuff just our political crooks are for the most part really good at it..... rivaled only by CA and NY.
It is legal, but the morality and ethics of those who do it are very questionable. Where's the legislature or regulators? (Drinking OP's (other people's) wine and eating their cheese, I betcha.)
