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How do you know that closes the loophole? How can you prove someone is saying they're estranged and not actually estranged? Sad fact is a wide net for social pr
by moate 7y ago
How do you know that closes the loophole? How can you prove someone is saying they're estranged and not actually estranged? Sad fact is a wide net for social programs are typically better, even if it allows scammers to skim off the system.
Which feels like the greater social loss to you, closing the loop hole and finding that you're now harming people who need assistance or keeping it open and allowing some people to benefit unfairly from the system?
- iguy 7y agoIt would close this particular loophole, by treating legally disowned and merely estranged identically. I'm not saying they would accept letters stating that you are estranged (which they certainly don't do now). I'm saying they could refuse to believe recent legal changes to parenthood, and just demand the whole list since birth. Just as lots of documents need every name you've ever had, not just your current legal name. (Whether the actually estranged should be treated differently is another question. Judging by how they've run the system so far, the colleges don't seem inclined to do so. I don't mean to defend their behavior, only to ask what moves they may make.)