VAOIG Review of Retroactive Payments

Review of Veterans Benefits Administration Large Retroactive Payments 06/30/09. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a special review of large retroactive Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) payments at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Offices (VAROs) in response to an ongoing OIG investigation. The objective of this review was to determine whether other such incidents were occurring at other VAROs processing large retroactive payments and to what extent VBA and VAROs have designed and implemented effective policies, procedures, and mechanisms to prevent and detect this type of fraudulent activity. Prior investigations of fraud relating to large retroactive payments heightened the need for more attention to prevention and detection of fraud related to these benefits payments.VAOIG