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OIG: VA failed to document $341 million in recruitment, relocation and retention incentives
Summary
A June 2025 Office of Inspector General report found that the Veterans Health Administration could not verify or adequately document roughly $341 million in incentive payments and that prior fixes after a 2017 audit were not sustained, the OIG told a House subcommittee in July 2025.
The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations heard July 2025 that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to adequately document hundreds of millions of dollars in recruitment, relocation and retention incentive payments.
Sean Steele, director of the Human Capital and Operations Division in the Office of Audits and Evaluations at the VA Office of Inspector General, told the subcommittee the OIG "estimated that the award justification could not be verified or is insufficient for 30% of VHA employees that received incentive payments. This amounted to about $341,000,000 in incentives that were not adequately…
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