https://freerepublic.com/tag/entitlementfraud/ en-us Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:22:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4393089/posts The threat of “ghost students” has become so prevalent at Minnesota’s largest community college that administrators now say nearly a third of all applications to the school are potentially fraudulent. That revelation recently came from Dara Hagen, vice president of Student Affairs at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. Enrollment fraud — using stolen identities of real people with the goal of stealing taxpayer-funded student aid — has become a nationwide problem over the last few years. “Since then, we’ve had about 29,000 fraudulent or potentially fraudulent applications that we’ve processed,” Hagen said. “We were seeing probably 42% of our applications... kstp https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4393089/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:22:39 GMT