A $386 million coronavirus pandemic veteran's retraining program run by the Department of Veterans Affairs largely didn't function as was designed and didn't attract as many veterans as it was created to serve, according to a Washington Post investigation.
that passed last year, heavily relied on for-profit institutions, some of which were later barred from participating in the program.
It was designed to serve a total of 17,250 veterans, but by Aug. 1, only about 6,800 veterans had enrolled and only 397 got new jobs after graduating, according to numbers from the VA reviewed by the Post.Congress did not prevent for-profit entities from receiving VA tuition payments as part of the program, despite the agency struggling in the past to regulate such schools, per the Post.
When Future Tech lost its approval for the program, it had been serving more than 300 other veterans.
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