Federal aid requires attendance verification for each course a student takes. In my state, state-level aid adopted the same requirement. Why the heck does the C

Federal aid requires attendance verification for each course a student takes. In my state, state-level aid adopted the same requirement. Why the heck does the California system do this too? Not to mention that even getting the aid in the first place requires filling out a FAFSA form-- difficult to provide fake tax returns-- and about 10% are randomly selected for verification as well.