A pair of Department of Veterans Affairs officials who were demoted after the inspector general found they had stolen $400,000 from the agency won’t actually be facing any punishment because the VA bungled the paperwork for their demotions.

The VA announced last month that Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves would be stripped of their present positions after they were both accused of manipulating a VA program meant to relocate agency employees who transfer long distances to take jobs within the VA. Rubens fraudulently netted more than $274,000 and Graves more than $129,000, according to the agency’s inspector general, but the VA indicated it would make no attempt to recover the money they siphoned from the program.