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House Veterans’ Affairs Committee leaders are expressing concern that the Veterans Affairs Department employees involved in more than $760,000 in wasteful conference spending might evade disciplinary action. Read more »

Congressional members charged with overseeing the interests of former American service members have asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for a briefing to explain why its "work study" program is often months late paying many of its employees: college students who served in the military. Read more »

The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee said Wednesday that an inspector general’s report on Department of Veterans Affairs spending on conferences raises questions about its leadership’s ability to cope with problems faced by the people it serves. Read more »

Officials spent more than $19 million in less than a year on four training conferences for more than 5,700 financial managers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more »

The head of the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday angrily blasted Department of Veterans Affairs officials for multiple failures related to a pair of costly 2011 training conferences. Read more »

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Following a new inspector general’s audit of two conferences held in 2011, the Veterans Affairs Department has enacted numerous tactics to check spending, root out misconduct by employees and keep senior officials involved in conference planning. Read more »

Adding to the growing list of taxpayer-funded boondoggles, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is under heavy congressional scrutiny after wastefully spending more than $700,000 on two employee conferences last year. A 150-page report issued by the VA Office of Inspector General (IG) affirmed that the lavish events, which took place in Orlando, Florida, were poorly planned by the agency’s senior leadership. Read more »

A new internal report from the Veterans Affairs Department shows the VA spent at least $6.1 million for a pair of training conferences with about $762,000 labeled as "unauthorized, unnecessary, and/or wasteful expenses." Read more »

Federal officials squandered as much as $762,000 on two training conferences last year in Orlando, according to a scathing report issued today that resulted in the resignation of a top Department of Veterans Affairs executive, referral of a second case for possible prosecution, and the rebuke of additional VA employees. Read more »