CSS Profile for Divorced Parents

[BelknapPoint]

“If the school reveals the personal tax information of the NCP on the student portal, that’s a failure by the school to protect sensitive data that should be closely held. Of course an NCP would be reluctant to provide the information if this was going to be the result, or upset with the school afterwards if that’s when the NCP learned about the privacy violation. Shame on any school that can’t get this right.”

You’re confused on the intent and purpose of Profile’s Student Portal. As long as Profile has been around, it’s been that way.

The school DOES NOT supply any info to the Student Portal; It is the student and the parents (both CP and NCP) -NOT the school- who place/upload the CP and NCP tax documentation, etc., into the Student Portal. That same info is also transmitted to each specific school requiring the info for their institutional funds awarding process.

I’m not talking about a student portal that CSS maintains; I’m talking about a portal that a school might have. That being said, if CSS establishes and maintains a student portal that makes available to the student (and potentially by extension the custodial parent as well) the private and sensitive financial information of a non-custodial parent, that’s the same kind of failure that I’m referring to in the post that you quote above.