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Jane Kigs, R-VA., Led a hearing on Tuesday, led a hearing to discuss the incentive payment of millions of dollars of incentive payments distributed by the Department of Legendary Affairs (VA), which were improperly documented.
According to a news release on the House Committee on Veterans cases, Kigs said in the House Committee on the sub -committee of veteran cases on the hearing of the Over -Jite and Investigations, Kigs said that the house committee has a sub -committee of the House Committee.
“They call it three RS, which are recruitment, retention and transfer,” Chris Lavel is described to Fox News Digital, CrS Lavel, a major and experienced -owned Laval Government Services CEO, a retired Marine Corps. “It gives additional salary to people … to keep them and maintain them, especially if they have special verifications that VA needs.”
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Recently an audit found that between 2020 and 2023, VA payment increased by 85%for rehabilitation, retention payment increased by 131%, and recruitment payment increased by 237%. According to the committee, during that period, employees were paid a total incentive of $ 1.2 billion, but according to the committee, $ 341 million was not properly documented.
Signage outside the Headquarters Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, DC (Stephanie Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Image)
The audit revealed that in an example, the Veterans Health Administration honored an employee with $ 30,000 in transfer payment, which never went away, the release said.
Lawal, whose Florida -based business provides resources to VA, said it is an ongoing problem. As per the release, a 2017 report found an inappropriate payment of more than $ 158 million from VA.
If the agency improved its management and upgrade its old system, these documentation issues may be reduced. The defense civilian pay system, which is used by both the Defense Department and the VA, was built more than 30 years ago.
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“This is a two-dimensional approach to the form of fraud and waste, to clean it,” he said. “If [management says] They want to clean the wrong payment or payment without documentation, then they need to look after it. … and the second piece of that improvement process is … system. ,
“They call it three RS, which are recruitment, retention and transfer,” Chris Lavel is described to Fox News Digital, CrS Lavel, a major and experienced -owned Laval Government Services CEO, a retired Marine Corps. “It gives additional salary to people … to keep them and maintain them, especially if they have special verifications that VA needs.” (Fox News Digital)
However, Laval said that VA is doing “great things” for veterans on a daily basis.
“We are happy to be a part of that,” he said.
In an email, a VA spokesman refers to Fox News Digital for the agency Testimony,
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The VA currently has about 482,000 employees, most of which work in veteran health administration, according to its website.
Earlier this year, the Government Efficiency Department found that VA had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to change the website before canceling the contract and to handle an internal employee.
Washington, DC a metal plaque on the mask of the Veterans Affairs Building Department (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
Combbing through the load and load of the data, Doge discovered a previous contract for its website maintenance by VA.
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“Good work by @DeptvetafAffairs,” Dogge said in a post on X. “VA was earlier paying ~ $ 380,000/month for modest website modifications. That contract is not renewed, and now the same work is being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~ 10 hours/week.”
