The Department of Veterans Affairs is authorized to provide retraining benefits to 99,000 veterans under the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, or VOW to Hire Heroes Act, through March 2014 but not all approved applicants are receiving benefits even though they are counted against the program limits, the VA inspector general has found.
It said that as of February, only about a third of authorized participants enrolled in the program were receiving benefits, even though all participants count against the program cap.
The Veterans Benefits Administration concurred with a recommendation to continue accepting applications until it has 99,000 veterans enrolled in an approved training program or until October 1, 2013, the last date a veteran may apply for program benefits.
