{"id":57647,"date":"2015-01-13T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57647"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:05:27","slug":"philly-va-incentives-for-doing-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57647","title":{"rendered":"Philly VA; incentives for doing their jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/12\/va-puts-veterans-at-risk-by-providing-incentive-to\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Philadelphia branch of the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department is paying incentives to claims processors for meeting goals on veterans&#8217; disability claims;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new Philadelphia program is designed to push employees to clear a backlog in disability claims. The team that has processed the most claims at the end of every other week will receive a breakfast, luncheon or snack as a reward, according to an incentive fact sheet obtained by The Washington Times. Each team that hits its target of claims processed before Feb. 28 will receive a $15,000 bonus to be divided among team members.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how when I work, the pay check I get is always incentive enough to do my job in a timely manner, but then, I didn&#8217;t work for the VA. Some VA employees see similarities with other VA incentive programs;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An employee at the Philadelphia VA facility said the program could lead to the same kind of cooked books that landed the Phoenix VA in trouble and ignited the nationwide scandal that cost the former VA secretary his job and led to vows that the department would put veterans\u2019 needs ahead of the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more of the same failed and lethal methods,\u201d said the employee, who said it often takes months to properly process a claim but almost no time to deny it. The incentive plan could encourage employees to deny claims in order to clear cases quickly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know there are VA employees in our audience ot there who have thoughts on this. I&#8217;d love to hear them,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Philadelphia branch of the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department is paying incentives &hellip; <a title=\"Philly VA; incentives for doing their jobs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57647\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philly VA; incentives for doing their jobs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}