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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OSSE needs to start with going for the low-hanging fruit - stable, middle-class families who use DCPS and DCPC schools but don't pay income tax to the District.

When we were investigated for residency fraud a few years ago, we were given a few days to produce several years of certified tax returns showing an IB address and DC withholding, along with a good many other documents proving residency (multiple utility bills, car registration, driver's licenses etc.).  No problem for us and we were cleared on the spot.[/quote]

What was the reason they had for investigating you?  I'm wondering what triggers an investigation.[/quote]

We were amicably separating at the time. Dad was staying with a relative in MD, borrowing a MD plate car. A busybody with an axe to grind in the school community wrote the residency fraud investigation people, claiming that we'd stolen "her" ECE spot. We were shown her letter and given a chance to clarify matters.  No big deal, we had the required paperwork and weren't cheating. The system worked.[/quote]

That's good to know it worked.  I've often wondered if my family would be reported by someone, because my son splits his time between my home in DC and his dad's home in Maryland.  His dad has Maryland plates.  Hasn't happened yet, but if it ever does, sounds like it will be easy to resolve.[/quote]

Right, that is good to know.  I'm going ot admit that when this debate started on DCUM a few years ago about MD plates I scoffed and thought it wasn't a big deal, and that there were probably many cases of divorce, or guardianship, or military, or nannies or whatever.  I'm still sure that is a big part of the cars with MD plates  issue, but I've swung around to believe there are a lot of cheaters and a great deal of fraud occurring and it warrants investigation.  [/quote]

I have said this before on other threads but I think the system works reasonably well in that scenario (there should be more investigations but these ones that turn up divorce/separation seem to work. However there is a ton of gaurdianship fraud going on. “I’m going though tough times so DS is staying with grandma” and then of course grandma does live in dc and has all the paperwork.  I think there is a lot of sensitivity (some of it reasonable) around trying to tease out these situations, and we certainly don’t want to make life more difficult for people in distress and unstable housing situations.  But I’m convinced that there are plenty of UMC/MC pulling this trick whocould be uncovered by looking at the parents’ taxes (the parents who claim tough times and kid needs to stay with a relative).  [/quote]

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