VA's Top Watchdog Agency Blames Poor Accounting Practices for Last Year's Budget Scare

This is how a functioning IG office in a government agency is supposed to operate.

"VBA officials ultimately justified the supplemental funding request as a precautionary measure to avoid potential payment delays to veterans. Although VBA acted with the intent to prioritize veterans' benefits, the OIG found that improvements in financial oversight, reporting accuracy, and communication processes would have provided greater clarity and may have obviated the need for the supplemental funding request," the IG wrote in its report.