When asked about why there had been overpayments, she said: "The overwhelming focus was to get numbers out of the door as quickly as possible".
The main snag has been overpayment followed by a hefty reclaim.
The company has been in dispute with the UK tax authorities for some while about what it claimed was overpayment of VAT on certain amusement machines and bingo.
But simply returning this money to the Treasury would hurt those areas where there are high overpayments by removing money from their local economies.
Indeed, by adopting the premise that the federal government needed to make sure there were no overpayments, the letter indicates that the governors imagined subsidies would be universal.
"That would seem like a logical place to cut if there is any, quote, unquote, overpayment," Mr. Boorady said.
But even within the existing footprint, there is plenty of scope for overpayment.
The VA's medical professionals are hired and paid under a separate accounting and oversight system from the administrative staff, and there is no indication of systematic overpayments to doctors, nurses or other health care providers.
"There is not now nor has there ever been an overpayment," Issa (R-Calif).
Releasing new figures, it said there were 1.5 million overpayments in 2012-13, down from 1.6 million the previous year.
There is buzz around the new Dodge Challenger, but the tyre-burning coupé will not generate enough sales on its own to make a difference.With Cerberus under pressure from its ill-timed purchase of a 51% stake in GM's financial-services arm and its apparent overpayment for United Rentals (a deal it is trying to unwind), it is unlikely, and possibly unable, to put in extra money.
