DB Read - Where Conditions

Pulling my hair out at my age is not a good idea, please help...

I used to use the following code in DB Read "Conditions" to find a record where the field "user_id" matched the logged in users "id" number[pre]<?php
$user = JFactory::getUser();
return array("user_id" => $user->get("id"));
?>[/pre]
This doesn't work anymore and I've tired a few different options to make this work but the codes don't do it. The main one I'm working with is:

user_id:{user:id}

While this states that it found the record it doesn't populate the fields.[br][br]Is my code wrong or am I missing something somewhere else?[br]

The debugger shows it has the records, but it does not display them...
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Array
(
    [read_data4] => Array
        (
            [log] => Array
                (
                    [0] => SELECT `Data`.`aid` AS `Data.aid`, `Data`.`user_id` AS `Data.user_id`, `Data`.`created` AS `Data.created`, `Data`.`modified` AS `Data.modified`, `Data`.`LicenseNumber` AS `Data.LicenseNumber`, `Data`.`LessonSelection` AS `Data.LessonSelection` FROM `00_UCD_StudentFileRequest` AS `Data` WHERE `Data`.`user_id` = '1065' LIMIT 10;
                )

            [var] => Array
                (
                    [Data] => Array
                        (
                            [aid] => 1
                            [user_id] => 1065
                            [created] => 2018-03-28 07:30:49
                            [LicenseNumber] => 123456789
                            [LessonSelection] => LessonEntry01 
                        )

                )

        )

)