I know several people in this category: still employed by the government and subject to government ethics rules, unhireable by any company that still needs to follow that government agency’s rules about conflicts of interest.

It’s not moving from one company to another.

It’s moving from the government regulator to a company regulated by that former employer. The rules on government conflicts of interest still apply, and you can’t accept a paycheck from a regulated entity while you’re still technically employed at the regulator.

No, even if tuition and books are free, financial aid still needs to help full time students have food to eat and have a place to live and ordinary day to day expenses. In many places, the aid on room and board is much more money than aid on tuition and fees.

And community colleges tend not to have their own dorms or anything like that, so it comes in the form of a monthly payment that helps the student pay their rent. That’s an incentive for fraud.