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HRD-83-47 1 (1983-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmww0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION Miss Dorothy L. Starbuck Chief Benefits Director Department of Veterans Benefits Veterans Administration Dear Miss Starbuck: Subject: Veterans Administration's Practices for Allowing Educational Benefit Payments for Courses Not Successfully Completed (GAO/HRD-83-47) The General Accounting Office has reviewed the Veterans Administration's (VA's) implementation of the legislative pro- vision which prohibits payment of educational benefits to students for courses for which the grades assigned are not used in computing the requirements for graduation, including courses from which the students withdraw, unless there are mitigating circumstances (38 U.S.C. 1780(a)(4)). We found that students received educational benefits to which they may not have been entitled. VA was accepting as mitigating circumstances nearly all statements submitted by students. The statements often did not indicate what control the students had over the events described or how the events affected the students' ability to successfully complete the courses. As a result of our discussions with VA officials, VA took action to clarify when mitigating circumstances should be accepted and to increase the requirements for supporting evidence. VA's action should, if properly implemented, substantially correct the situtation. These matters are discussed in more detail below. BACKGROUND Because of program abuse detected in the mid-1970s, the Veterans' Education and Employment Assistance Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-502) prohibits educational benefit payments for (406792) 120956

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