Michael Missal

AP/Charles DharapakFILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington.  In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA plans to spend last $2B in COVID-19 funds House Republicans want to claw back

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What’s driving VA’s EHR delay? Congress, IGs begin oversight in earnest this week

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Lawmakers declare lack of confidence in VA’s accountability office

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VA to more strategically target recruitment, retention incentives to address 49,000 vacancies

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New accountability office hasn’t made a dent in VA’s ‘culture of retaliation,’ whistleblowers say

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VA IG looks into last year’s status of improper payments

VA Inspector General Michael Missal joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share what the department found when looking into the status of last year’s…

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VA hires IT systems integrator to meet new Forever GI bill implementation deadline

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has the right leadership and contractors in place this time to resolve the department’s longstanding IT issues…

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VA IG: Decentralization to blame for housing stipend, IT shortfalls

VA Inspector General Michael Missal said despite enthusiasm for the passage of the Forever GI bill, the agency has yet to meet a single deadline.

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