What is the issue with Nurses, Doctors, and Cleaning Staff getting bonuses? Most if not all are hard working people. The real criminals are the BFEE.

in my opinion. they receive good, decent pay, retirement, regular pay increases, generous vacation and sick time, and healthcare. sheesh. much more than civilian service employees.

i can understand for profit businesses gifting bonuses when there are profits. but government is not a for profit business. if it is, something is wrong. any profit should go back to the taxpayers.

the problems with the VA is funding. So they are failing at what they do, and getting huge bonuses? And if the staff at this place manipulated patient records to get these bonuses, one might argue that they committed fraud, and deserve to be fired.

so pffffffffffft.

The VA system gets their funding in a lump sum before their money year starts. In order to get the same amount or more the following year they have to use up the money from the current year. If they don't, the people in DC say "well gosh you had money left over last year so you don't need as much next year. Least that is what I have heard while working at a VA facility. May partially why they were handing out bonus money so much.
This is also one reason why the hospitals and clinics are never effected when there are gov shutdown..VA already has their money upfront. The only dept that is at risk (at least at our place) is the research department that is funded differently.
And I never understand how they hand out overtime pay SO much. Why not hire more people and staff the places decently? Instead they have to use tons of people pulling in a shitload of OT pay.

Some time is a federal pen will serve as a deterrent to others who might be thinking of this.

blame it on president obama

but clearly wait-times were the wrong measuring stick for performance based bonuses.

What a disaster.

Make room at Leavenworth indeed.

government trough. Stealing the public and veterans money. If
dems were running that place fox noise would have had them arrest and that VA center closed by now.
No congressional hearing tells me they are ALL republicans stealing the veterans money and calling it bonuses.
Call it what it is.

They have since 2009.