Pentagon Forcing Veterans To Pay Back Signing Bonuses

Описание: The Pentagon is screwing over veterans. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/join

“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has joined the growing chorus of California lawmakers urging the Obama administration to cease collecting payments from soldiers who were mistakenly overpaid reenlistment bonuses.

Pelosi said the soldiers have earned every dollar they got and called on GOP leaders in both chambers — Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) — to enact a legislative fix in the post-election, lame-duck session.

“These brave Californians were willing to give everything to serve our country, and they earned every penny and benefit given to them," Pelosi said Monday in a brief statement.

“The overpayment of enlistment signing bonuses by the Department of Defense should not be the responsibility of our service members or veterans to pay back, years after the fact," she added. “Speaker Ryan and Leader McConnell must join with Congressional Democrats and pass a legislative fix as soon as we gavel back into session.”

At issue are millions of dollars in bonuses paid by military recruiters to thousands of soldiers in 2006 and 2007. The payments were designed to help the military meet enlistment goals amid the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, but federal investigators found they they were paid too broadly in a number of states, particularly in California, and the Pentagon is now demanding roughly $20 million in repayments.”

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