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As of May 28, 2024, there are 5132 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 412 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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VA Health Care: Additional Assessments of Mileage Reimbursement Data and Veterans' Travel Costs Needed

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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary for Health should collect and assess information on subpopulations of veterans' use of the mileage reimbursement benefit and identify options, as appropriate, to help improve access to care for underserved veterans. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary for Health should collect additional information on veterans' travel costs and assess costs by demographic, geographic, or other subpopulations to inform evidence-based decisions about transportation programs' resources. This additional information could include fuel costs and the cost of vehicle maintenance, accessories, parts, and tires. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary for Health should finalize and implement an outreach plan for improving veterans' awareness of aspects of the mileage reimbursement benefit. The plan should include outcome-oriented performance measures and appropriate communication methods, based on factors such as the intended audience. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary for Health should evaluate the effectiveness of the outreach plan for improving veterans' awareness of the benefit, and revise communication methods as appropriate. (Recommendation 4)
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Emergency Rental Assistance: Treasury Should Improve Data Completeness and Public Reporting

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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Chief of the Office of Capital Access revise ERA2 public reports to include language disclosing details on potential underreporting of ERA2 expenditures, demographic information, and payments to households, and on local jurisdictions' transfer of funds. (Recommendation 1)
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Military Health Care: DOD and VA Could Benefit from More Information on Staff Use of Military Toxic Exposure Records

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Department of Defense The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group establishes goals with performance measures on the extent of ILER use by types of staff and purpose within DOD and VA (Recommendation 1).
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Department of Defense The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group or other relevant entities, such as the ILER Steering Group, use the data collected for the goals' performance measures to inform management decisions, including outreach, training, or other efforts that support the appropriate use of ILER (Recommendation 2).
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Under Secretary for Health should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group establishes goals with performance measures on the extent of ILER use by types of staff and purpose within DOD and VA (Recommendation 3).
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Under Secretary for Health should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group or other relevant entities, such as the ILER Steering Group, use the data collected for the goals' performance measures to inform management decisions, including outreach, training, or other efforts that support the appropriate use of ILER (Recommendation 4).
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Veterans Affairs: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Care in the U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States

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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should assess the underlying data sources of its VetPop model to identify the extent to which known data limitations impact the accuracy of population estimates for veterans living in the U.S. territories and FAS. In doing so, VA should consult with local government officials and stakeholders to identify and validate available veteran data sources, and make changes as appropriate to VetPop's data sources. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Under Secretary for Health should clearly communicate in writing appropriate uses for the new capabilities within its VHA Support Service Center databases to generate utilization and timeliness of care data by veteran location. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should assess whether it is feasible and advisable to expand travel reimbursement eligibility for any condition among service-connected disabled veterans in the U.S. territories, and as appropriate or consistent with that analysis, amend its regulations to do so. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure that the Director of VAPIHCS, in collaboration with DOD, identify and implement additional opportunities to share resources and solutions to address shared challenges affecting the implementation of their resource sharing agreements in the Pacific. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Under Secretary for Health, in coordination with the Executive Directors of the VA Office of Procurement, Acquisition, and Logistics, and the VHA Procurement and Logistics Office, should clarify in writing the appropriate processes, in line with VHA's Supply Chain Management Operations Directive, for VA Caribbean Healthcare System officials to communicate challenges receiving medical services or devices. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of DOD should ensure that the Directors of the Defense Health Networks Indo-Pacific and Pacific Rim, in collaboration with VA, identify and implement additional opportunities to share resources and solutions to address shared challenges affecting the implementation of their resource sharing agreements in the Pacific. (Recommendation 6)
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Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities

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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on administrative sanctions, all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels, to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on administrative sanctions, all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness designates a department-level office as the oversight entity responsible for coordinating the military departments' assessments of racial and ethnic disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the department-level office designated to oversee coordination of the military departments' racial disparity assessments coordinates with the military departments to establish standard terminology and reporting categories, analyses, and reporting format and content to be used in future assessments of racial disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 5)
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