{"id":35505,"date":"2013-05-08T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35505"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:55:27","slug":"house-bill-would-ban-va-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35505","title":{"rendered":"House bill would ban VA bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/lawmakers-move-to-stop-bonuses-to-va-execs-for-five-years-1.220046\" target=\"_blank\">House Veterans Affairs Committee passed a bill today<\/a>\u00a0that would grant in-state tuition rates to all veterans attending public universities as well as ban all VA executive bonuses for five years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs would be banned from receiving any bonuses for five years under legislation approved by a congressional committee Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after two weeks of criticism over how the department awards bonuses, and reports of several five-figure awards for VA officials despite questionable performances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Questionable performances&#8221; is\u00a0inaccurate\u00a0&#8211; piss-poor performance is better.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the head of the committee issued a statement on the bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe fact that so many VA executives collected huge performance bonuses year after year while continually failing at their jobs calls into question whether department leaders even know the meaning of the word \u2018accountability,\u2019\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we have complete confidence that VA is holding executives accountable \u2013 rather than rewarding them \u2013 for their mistakes, no one should get a performance bonus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The VA suspended bonuses for fiscal year 2012 last month, but lawmakers, including Miller, complained that the VA decision didn&#8217;t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the bill calls for an increase in the amount of disability compensation equal to increases in Social Security increases.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will have to pass the full House and the Senate before it becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/veterans.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.veterans.house.gov\/files\/ANS%20to%20HR%20357%20Miller%20In%20State%20Tuition%20%282%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full text of the bill can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterthearmy.me\/2013\/05\/08\/house-bill-ban-va-bonuses\/\" target=\"_blank\">After the Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0House Veterans Affairs Committee passed a bill today\u00a0that would grant in-state tuition rates to all veterans &hellip; <a title=\"House bill would ban VA bonuses\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35505\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House bill would ban VA bonuses<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}