The VA doesn’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to responsible spending. In the past the department has blown money on solar panels that were never used, tried to pay nearly $10 million to build 25 parking spots, and spent nearly $2 billion so far on a new hospital that’s still unfinished.... Read more »

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It’s easy to misplace a $10 calculator, and people lose cell phones all the time. But it’s pretty rare to lose a refrigerator. That’s exactly what the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Central-Western Massachusetts Healthcare system managed to do. An investigative news team looked into hundreds of pages of “lost and found” records from 2010 to... Read more »

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The Veterans Affairs hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia had a brilliant plan to fix a 600-spot shortage in their parking lot: spend almost $10 million to build 25 new parking spots. The hospital administration’s original proposal was to build 430 spots for $9.7 million. But after six years and $400,000 of planning costs, outside auditors... Read more »

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A VA whistleblower has written a letter to President Trump detailing the potential trashing of over 500,000 veterans’ benefits applications. In 2014, Scott Davis, an employee at the VA’s national enrollment office in Atlanta, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the enrollment office’s mismanagement and possible fraud concerning 889,000 healthcare applications. He even testified before Congress... Read more »

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The Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report last week finding that during a six-month period, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) improperly authorized 28% of its automated payments. These improper payments “included payments to spouses who were no on veterans’ records at the date of death or who were deceased, multiple payments,... Read more »

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If you showed up to work and spent all your time doing something other than your daily duties, you’d expect to get fired, right?  Not at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that employees at the VA have spent more than a million hours on... Read more »

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In an attempt to update the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) information technology (IT) programs, a lack of management and oversight have ended up costing the VA millions of dollars and the program was not the return on investment that was expected. VA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that Enterprise Operations, which is part... Read more »

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A recent audit completed by the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals millions of dollars intended for the recruitment and retention of VA employees landed in the pockets of undeserving officials. In the recently released report, there were an estimated 238 employees who received relocation or retention bonuses but did not fulfill the... Read more »

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A new report by the Office of Inspector General this week revealed that the VA’s Office of Information and Technology spent $7.2 million on computers and software licenses that it did not need. That $7.2 million has now been deemed waste. For security purposes the department that manages patient billing and reimbursements purchased “3,695 computers,... Read more »

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