College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid

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College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid
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The Education Department is looking into the practice of rich parents transferring guardianship of children to claim college aid, say people familiar

CHICAGO—Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions, the Education Department is looking into a tactic that has been used in some suburbs here, in which wealthy parents transfer legal guardianship of their college-bound children to relatives or friends so the teens can claim financial aid, say people familiar with the matter.

The strategy caught the department’s attention amid a spate of guardianship transfers here. It means that only the children’s earnings were considered in their financial-aid...

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