By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-22 05:30:07 | Updated at 2024-10-22 07:37:51
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VA back paid hundreds of fired employees, report claims, as agency says it'll 'ensure' bad actors can't return
Fox ^ | 21 Oct 2024 | Charles Creitz
Posted on 10/21/2024 10:27:02 PM PDT by blueplum
EXCLUSIVE: A right-leaning research group is claiming that the Department of Veterans Affairs under the Biden administration back paid more than $130 million to 1,700 people fired under a Trump-era law that allows for easier accountability for federal employees.
Through Freedom of Information Act filings, the America First Policy Institute will soon release the results of its probe.
Its investigation also found the VA reinstated more than 100 terminated employees who were fired for indiscretions ranging from negligence to sleeping on the job...
The investigation found that of the more than 4,000 terminated employees, more than 1,700 received back pay or compensation.
At that rate, back pay to the entire group of former employees would total $300 million, a statement from AFPI read.
Former Trump VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the current administration has "let down American veterans and taxpayers" with such actions....
"The [Trump] administration’s implementation of the 2017 law was repeatedly struck down by the courts, putting VA at risk of having to rehire individuals who committed patient abuse, harassment, and criminal activity ...The law Trump signed, authored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act — meant to do what its title laid out.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accountabilityact; governmentunions; rubio; va; veteransaffairs
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