The Department of Veterans Affairs has paid out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in bonuses to executives, according to a federal watchdog report.
The VA Inspector General released a report detailing that the VA "Erroneously" paid out about $11 million in bonuses to executives that were later found to be ineligible for those bonuses.
The bonuses totaled as much as $100,000 for just one federal employee.
"During oversight visits across the country, we have consistently heard from VA police officers, medical supply technicians, housekeepers, and other VA staff about the need for VA to better retain quality employees," House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., said in a statement.
"Instead of using all of the critical skill incentives to do this, VA inappropriately used the money to line the pockets of VA executives to the detriment of VA's workforce and the veterans they serve." Federal watchdogs reported last year that the VA paid out $9.7 million in bonuses.
The VA pledged to cancel the bonuses.
In the 2022 PACT Act, lawmakers included a provision for VA bonuses to help retain talent at the agency, which has been under fire for years for a myriad of issues.
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