Jeff Miller Wants VA Secretary to Be Able to Recall Bonuses

The chairman of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., unveiled a bill this week to ensure the VA secretary can take back bonuses from underpeforming employees. Miller noted VA medical center employees received bonuses despite problems at the hospitals, including altered wait lists.

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 on Tuesday. I urge my colleagues to support this bill so the VA secretary will have another tool to instill some much-needed accountability throughout the department.