“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) improperly charged almost 73,000 disabled veterans more than $286 million in home loan fees they didn’t owe, according to a report by the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released Thursday.”
“More than 53,000 vets may still be owed almost $190 million in wrongly-paid fees, charged between 2012 and 2017, the report says. VA managers were made aware of the issue in 2014 but never took action, something the OIG report describes as “troubling.” At that time, about 48,000 veterans were due refunds of more than $150 million…”
“The VA’s latest misstep is just one of several serious accounting errors the agency has made in recent years, she noted. (The VA’s new IT systems contain flaws so serious that some veterans have become homeless while waiting for their benefits to be issued.)” Read the full article here.
Source: The VA charged disabled veterans $286 million in fees they didn’t owe – By Justin Rohrlich, June 7, 2019. Yahoo! Finance.
