Earlier this week, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) urged the Obama administration to ensure equal treatment of applicants in the financial aid process.
“Taxpayer-funded financial aid is often being misallocated based on sexual orientation when it should be based solely on financial need,” Kerry wrote in a letter addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Indeed, as a result of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the FAFSA is often unable to count parents, spouses, step-children, and other family members as part of an individual’s application for financial aid.
The resulting unequal treatment leads to significant distortions in the allocation of financial aid for applicants who have two mothers or two fathers.
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