Summary: The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking back nearly $10 million in bonuses it paid to career senior leaders earlier this month, over concerns the awards went to more executives than intended. VA officials said in a statement Friday that the department, after a recent review, found it was “imprecise” in how it implemented its new critical skill incentive (CSI) authority under the toxic-exposure PACT Act “This led to more career senior executives receiving these payments than intended,” VA officials said in a statement. The VA said 170 career senior executives received about $9.7 million in critical skill incentive payments in early September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
