The Department of Veterans Affairs is pushing back on a Wednesday NBC News report about how the agency said it would not reimburse veterans who were underpaid in delayed or incorrect GI Bill payments.

“The NBC report is misleading and gives the false impression that some veterans on the GI Bill will not be made whole with respect to their housing payments based on an announcement VA made yesterday,” VA press secretary Curt Cashour told the Washington Examiner in an email on Thursday. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Cashour said that every veteran on the GI Bill would be completely financially reimbursed for housing benefits for this academic year and, if need be, it would be done retroactively.

“Once again – every, and I mean every single veteran, will be made whole for their housing benefits this year,” Cashour emphasized.

According to the NBC News report, congressional staffers were told by the VA that it would not be paying veterans who received less than they were due, despite the department’s promise last month to a House committee to do so.

On Wednesday, the VA announced changes in processing of GI Bill benefit payments, but Cashour said this does not mean that veterans will not be reimbursed what they are owed.

For several weeks, student veterans have raised concerns about their GI Bill benefit payments either being delayed or incorrect, and the VA has blamed this mishap on computer issues.

In a Thursday morning email obtained by the Washington Examiner, the VA assured GI Bill students that they would be issued reimbursements for any late or unaccurate payments.

“By the end of 2018, VA will install the current year uncapped DoD [basic allowance for housing] rates, and subsequently [monthly housing allowance] payments will follow this rate. For many students, this rate will be equal or higher than their current payments,” the VA wrote in its email to veteran students. “Shortly after this update, VA will issue an additional payment to students who were underpaid for applicable terms.”

In July 2017, President Trump signed off on a change in how housing allowances are calculated under the Forever GI Bill, and when computers were unable to process the change, the VA began experiencing issues with a backlog of veterans’ claims that were three times higher than usual.

Due to the problem, the VA said it would need to delay allowance changes until December 2019, promising that retroactive payment would be made to correct the amount received by veteran students.

NBC News’ report said VA aides told congressional staffers Wednesday that the agency could not make retroactive payments before auditing its previous education claims, and furthermore did not intend to send any reimbursements.

“They are essentially going to ignore the law and say that that change only goes forward from Dec. 2019,” one aide said, according to NBC.