WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR)—Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies—released the following statement regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plans to compensate Forever GI Bill beneficiaries who were underpaid:
“When I brought the issue of GI Bill underpayments up to Secretary Wilkie during a hearing in September, he acknowledged the VA’s error and promised that all affected recipients would be compensated. When recent news reports suggested the VA was not acting to help veterans who have been shortchanged, the department outlined its plans to remedy the situation. Those plans fall short. These veterans must be fully repaid for errors they did not cause and that is what I expect the VA to do.”
