Veterans may have received lower monthly disability payments than they should have due to errors made by a computer used by the Department of Veterans Affairs to calculate the amount they should be paid, a federal watchdog found.

It’s unclear how far back the miscalculations go, but some veterans with particularly serious disabilities — like amputations — may have been short-changed anywhere from $132.74 to $4,170.59 in their monthly disability checks. Other veterans may have received overpayments as high as $373.18, according to a VA Inspector General report released this week.

In unearthing the errors in the VA’s payment calculation system, the IG did not examine any actual payments made to veterans, and did not determine whether any actual veterans had been underpaid. Instead, the rep

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