Review of Compensation and Pension Program: Washington Offices: Veterans Administration, July 1954

The Division of Audits, General Accounting Office, has made a review of the Compensation and Pension Program operations in the Veterans Administration's (VA)Central and Washington Regional Offices pursuant to the provisions of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, and the Accounting and Auditing Act, 1950. The review included a study of the legislation, regulations, and operating and procedural instructions pertaining to the Compensation and Pension Program and an examination of representative compensation and pension awards and related financial transactions. The VA was created by Executive Order 5398, as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government to administer all laws authorizing benefits for former members of the Armed Forces and for dependents of deceased former members of the Armed Forces. Before the creation of the VA, laws relating to veterans had been administered by the Bureau of Pensions, the United States Veterans Bureau, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.