“Republicans and Democrats are uniting to ask the Department of Veterans Affair show it plans to repay more than $286 million in home loan fees the agency mistakenly charged veterans, many of whom are disabled.”
“A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers penned a letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, saying that the thousands of veterans who should have been exempt from home loan fees but were charged for them by the VA anyway, need to be repaid.”
“The VA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report showing that $286.4 million in home loan fees were wrongly charged to about 72,900 disabled veterans who, because they are entitled to disability benefits, also are exempt from paying the fees.”
“The average veteran is owed $4,483, according to the OIG report, and some veterans are owed as much as $19,470…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA owes veterans $286M for wrongly charged home loan fees. Congress wants answers – By Abbie Bennett, June 26, 2019. Radio.com.
