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All of these veterans, who used education benefits earned in the military to pay for the training, had signed agreements pledging to work in the VA’s troubled contracting and acquisition workforce or repay related expenses if they left early.
Some disabled veterans who've been through a Department of Veterans Affairs training program in Frederick say they've been hit with costly claims for expenses after quitting stressful acquisition jobs at the VA before they were supposed to.
Army veteran Sebastian Anderson says he started having a panic attack when he received a letter from the VA demanding almost $17K for expenses incurred during an internship as part of Warriors to Workforce, a training program for disabled veterans.