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More than 200 Montana veterans have been overcharged in a nationwide U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Home Loan billing scandal.

Veterans nationwide were charged $286 million too much under the low-interest, no down payment home loan program managed by the VA. The victims, numbering 72,900, are disabled veterans exempt from paying the fees. In Montana, there were 263 veterans charged who shouldn't have been.

The fees range from 0.5 to 3.3 percent of a loan's amount. The wrongful overcharges were revealed in a June 6 report from the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. On average, veterans who were overcharged paid $4,483, but on the high end were people wrongfully billed more than $19,000.

The investigation revealed that Veterans Affairs knew about $150 million in overbilling at least five years ago, but the practice continued. Whistleblowers at a VA regional loan center in St. Paul, Minn., shared that information with local media in 2014.

Friday, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and other members of veterans committees in the House and Senate wrote VA Secretary Robert Wilkie asking if the VA planned to repay veterans the $286 million.