Report: VA gave $100M in bonuses as vets awaited care

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Even as federal inspectors repeatedly warned that patient wait lists were having a detrimental impact on care, the troubled Veterans Affairs health system handed out $108.7 million inbonuses to executives and employees the past three years, an Asbury Park Press investigation found.

The top bonuses went to top executives in the Veterans Health Administration, which has come under fire for what its Office of Inspector General called "systemic patient safety issues" that may have led to wrongful deaths. Last year, the top bonuses — of $21,000, $17,000 and $13,000 — went to medical and dental officers in San Diego, according to the Press' review of payroll data from the Office of Personnel Management.

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