Rep. Kiggans leads hearings on VA incentive payment issues

R-Va. Jen Kiggans of the group led the hearing on Tuesday, discussing incentive payments worth millions of dollars. Veterans Affairs Bureau (VA) It was inappropriately documented.

Kiggans said in the Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Committee on Oversight and Inquiry Hearings that payments for incentives for recruitment, relocation and retention have been lacking oversight for years. House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

“They call it three RSs, recruiting, retaining and relocating,” said Chris Lovell, who retired. Major Marine Corps CEO of veteran-owned Lovell Government Services, as described in Fox News Digital. “We provide people with additional salaries and hold them and hold them.”

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A recent audit found that between 2020 and 2023, relocation VA payments increased by 85%, retention payments increased by 131%, and recruitment payments increased by 237%. The committee said employees were given incentive payments worth a total of $1.2 billion during that period, of which $341 million was not properly documented.

The audit found, in one instance, the Veterans’ Health Department awarded a $30,000 relocation payment to employees who had never moved, the release said.

Lovell, Florida-based business He provided resources to the VA and stated that this is an ongoing issue. According to the release, a 2017 report found that inappropriate payments from the VA totaled over $158 million in unsupported spending.

Those documentation issues could be alleviated if agencies improve management and upgrade outdated systems, Lovell said. Defence civil wage system used by both Ministry of Defense And the VA was created over 30 years ago.

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“This is two approaches to sweep away what’s perceived as fraud and waste,” he said. “If you want to clean up mispayments and payments without documentation (management says), you need to oversee it…and the second part of that improvement process is the system.”

But Lovell said the VA does “great things” every day for veterans.

“We’re happy to be a part of it,” he said.

In an email, a VA spokesman introduced Fox News to its agency Testimony at the hearing.

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Currently, the VA has around 482,000 employees, most of whom work for the Veterans Health Department.

Earlier this year, the government’s efficiency department discovered that the VA had cancelled its contract and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for changes to its website before internal staff took over.

While examining the load and large amounts of data, Doge discovered a previous contract by the VA for website maintenance.

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