More than 400,000 federal aid applications have been flagged for additional review this summer alone. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images | Chris Ryan/OJO Images/Getty Images

Many financial aid advisers are worried that the Trump administration’s latest effort to bolster identity verification in the student aid system could have unintended consequences. Instead of simply catching fraudulent grant applicants and borrowers, some fear that the verification process could also prevent real, eligible students from accessing public benefits.

Education Department officials, however, assure aid advisers that one of their top priorities is to distribute aid smoothly to the students who have a right to it, even as they protect the integrity of the

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