It is a start, also need a provision for VA employees that are fake warriors and claim serving with elite forces.
Via The Blaze
The House voted Monday to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take away performance bonuses from officials who are later discovered to be undeserving of those cash awards, and did so in a unanimous voice vote.
The vote showed that both Republicans and Democrats continue to be worried about ongoing managerial problems at the VA, nearly a year after the VA was shown to be systematically failing to provide veterans with timely health care.
That scandal unveiled a broken VA in which senior officials were delaying health care access, and trying to cover up this fact once Congress started investigating. Along the way, it was found that senior VA officials were routinely getting huge bonuses, even in VA systems that failed to help thousands of veterans.
Since then, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) has said the VA needs to have the authority to strip away bonuses from corrupt or negligent officials. His legislation was aimed at letting the VA take back $380,000 in bonuses at 38 VA hospitals that are still under investigation for pretending to serve veterans on time.
“Ideally, VA employees and executives who collected bonuses under false pretenses should be subject to prosecution when warranted, but at a minimum their bonuses should be paid back in full,” Miller said in January when he introduced the bill.
However, it’s unclear whether the VA would use its new authority even if it became law. In January, Miller’s committee held a hearing in which two senior VA officials said the VA had no opinion on whether corrupt or negligent officials should be able to keep their ill-gotten bonuses.