An investigation by USA Today into the Veterans Administration finds that the embattled agency delivered $142 million in bonuses to its employees in 2014.
Among the highlights of the investigation were revelations that managers at facilities that were at the center of high-profile scandals got performance-based bonuses of between several hundred and several thousand dollars.
The bonuses paid out to individual VA employees are a pittance compared to the eye-popping sums doled out to executives by taxpayer-rescued Wall Street banks in the midst of the Great Recession, but the symbolic effect of bad public employees being rewarded is bound to have political ramifications.
Complete your profile to continue reading and get FREE access to BenefitsPRO, part of your ALM digital membership.
Your access to unlimited BenefitsPRO content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:
- Breaking benefits news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
