Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline F · Financial
Gambling Losses or Compulsive Gambling
Does gambling losses or compulsive gambling affect a security clearance?
Basis: 45 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
45
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
22%
10 granted · 35 denied or revoked
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 57-year-old linguist for a defense contractor who sought a security clearance. The allegations in the Statement of Reasons (SOR) involved foreign influence under Guide…
The judge found that the applicant mitigated financial concerns related to multiple debts, including a past-due mortgage, collection accounts, and a federal tax lien. The applicant demonstrated signif…
Applicant, a 39 year old pro se respondent, was denied a security clearance under Guideline F. The judge found that Applicant had a 2013 Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a dismissed 2024 bankruptcy, 14 unresolve…
The applicant in this case was a 62-year-old security officer employed by a federal contractor since 2015. He faced security concerns under Guidelines F (Financial Considerations) and E (Personal Cond…
Related issues under Guideline F
- Credit Card Debt (4,757)
- Medical Debt (3,857)
- Unpaid Federal/State Taxes (3,229)
- Auto Loan / Vehicle Repossession (2,829)
- Utility / Phone / Cable Debt (2,351)
- Student Loan Debt (2,242)
How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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