American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Oversight Advisory Report: Audit of VA's Implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill Long Term Solution

摘要

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provided VA with $50 million for information technology systems. In June 2008, Congress passed the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, Public Law 110-252. Existing systems lacked the capability to administer the necessary complex calculations. As such, VA instituted an Interim Solution even while incrementally developing a Long Term Solution (LTS) to fully automate processing of veterans' Chapter 33 education benefits by December 31, 2010. In line with requirements for VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) oversight of Post-9/11 GI Bill implementation, we evaluated the effectiveness of the VA Office of Information and Technology's (OI&T) plan for LTS deployment.