Hearing
Detrimental Delays: Reviewing Payment Failures in VA’s Education Programs.
A source-backed event record from the House committee corpus, with connected witnesses, documents, and official source materials.
Event Info
Description and source record
- Title
- Detrimental Delays: Reviewing Payment Failures in VA’s Education Programs
- Committee
- Committee on Veterans' Affairs / Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
- Date line
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025 (10:15 AM)
- Published
- December 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
- Last updated
- March 6, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Record intelligence
This record is organized to support questions about what happened, who testified, what documents changed, and what issues were raised, with citations back to source materials.
Witnesses
People connected to this event
Ms. Margarita Devlin
Acting Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Benefits, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Department of LaborMr. Kenneth Smith
Executive Director at Education Service, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits AdministrationMr. Justin Parke
Managing Director, Digital GI Bill Program Manager, Accenture Federal Services
Digital GI Bill Program Manager, Accenture Federal ServicesMs. Ashlynne Haycock-Lohmann
Director, Government & Legislative Affairs, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
Government and Legislative Affairs, Tragedy Assistance Program for SurvivorsDocuments
Source materials
noticeHearing NoticeDocumentStatement of the Record: Veterans Education SuccessDocumentStatement of the Record: NAVPA Government Shutdown Executive Summary 2025DocumentStatement of the Record: NAVPA Government Shutdown 2025 Final AnalysisDocumentStatement for the Record: Student Veterans of AmericaDocumentHearing: Witness ListDocumentRep. Abe HamadehDocumentVA Response to Rep. HamadehtranscriptFinal Printed Hearing