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Ontario pauses OSAP payments after KPMG audit finds fraud

By Drooid · Oct 6, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC · How we work

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Ontario government referred the OSAP payments issue at private career colleges to the provincial police.
Minister Nolan Quinn said KPMG began an audit after inspections uncovered OSAP problems.
The audit found common ownership, immigration-service links, poor student verification and clustered applications.
Ontario paused all OSAP payments for career-college students, affecting $385 million in grants to seven colleges in 2024-25.

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Ontario government referred the OSAP payments issue at private career colleges to the provincial police.
Minister Nolan Quinn said KPMG began an audit after inspections uncovered OSAP problems.
The audit found common ownership, immigration-service links, poor student verification and clustered applications.
Ontario paused all OSAP payments for career-college students, affecting $385 million in grants to seven colleges in 2024-25.