Veterans Affairs, Inspector General careers
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This watchdog has a healthcare inspection arm because a statute gave it one: the Veterans Benefits and Services Act of 1988 charged the inspector general with overseeing the medical care the Veterans Health Administration delivers. More than 900 professional staff work in four directorates, Investigations, Audits and Evaluations, Healthcare Inspections, and Management and Administration, which runs the hotline. Offices for data and analytics, congressional relations, and public affairs sit beside them, plus field offices nationwide beyond the Washington, DC headquarters.
The Inspector General Act of 1978 set this office up as an independent agency, so its hiring and its reporting lines run separately from the department it audits. Management and Administration is the directorate that carries the internal business functions.