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Jen Kiggans, R-Va., led a hearing on Tuesday to discuss millions of dollars’ worth of incentive payments distributed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that were improperly documented.
Kiggans, at the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, said incentive payments for recruitment, relocation and retention have lacked oversight for years, according to a news release from the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
“They call it the three Rs, which are recruitment, retention, and relocation,” Chris Lovell, a retired Marine Corps Major and CEO of veteran-owned Lovell Government Services, described to Fox News Digital. “It gives additional pay to folks… to keep them and retain them, especially if they have specialty vocations that the VA needs.”
A recent audit found that between 2020 and