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CalMatters: Financial aid fraud keeps climbing in California community colleges

CalMatters frames the statewide response

CalMatters reports that scammers stole more than $10 million in federal financial aid from California's community colleges in a single 12-month window — more than double the prior year. The article names N2N Services as one of the technology partners the Chancellor's Office has engaged to help authenticate applicants and protect aid disbursement, alongside ID.me and LexisNexis.

The piece is widely cited as the definitive scale-setting on the ghost-student problem and helped motivate the $150M+ in cybersecurity allocations the state has made since 2022.

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