Remember the story a few weeks ago about wounded Iraq War veterans being asked to repay their enlistment bonuses? Well, it turns out there really isn’t a story there.

Lawmakers condemned the practice, and more than 250 signed on to sponsor legislation designed to right the wrong. They promised to rein in the heartless government bureaucrats who dared to implement a policy that could snatch soldiers’ money away like this.

Problem is, there doesn’t appear to be much of a problem.

Only a handful of cases have been found in which a wounded soldier was asked to repay a bonus, and those turned out to be clerical mistakes.