Veterans Affairs
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The top Republican on the Senate Small Business Committee is calling for higher standards for federal small business contracting goals.
May 04, 2023 -
The House is in recess this week, but the Senate will hear more budget testimony and deal with judicial nominees. Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the outlook from Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.
May 01, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new permanent director for benefits is preparing the agency for another record-breaking year for processing claims.
April 28, 2023 -
In 2020, Congress repealed something known as the Survivor Benefit Plan - Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset. Better known as the Widow's Tax, it disappeared after a three-year phase-out ending earlier his year.
April 27, 2023 -
The VA on Tuesday experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle-Cerner EHR that’s currently running at five sites.
April 26, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is already meeting one of its goals to grow its health care workforce by the end of the fiscal year, and remains on track to meet its other hiring targets.
April 25, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is putting all future deployments of its new Electronic Health Record on hold, until it addresses problems at sites already using the system.
April 21, 2023 -
House and Senate lawmakers are starting to close ranks on which of several EHR modernization bills has the best chance of making it through Congress.
April 19, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The VA and NIH are launching a five-year study into the chronic condition known as Gulf War Illness. The Defense Department has named a new director for its Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. And the final piece to modernize the TIC 3.0 requirements has arrived.
April 18, 2023 -
It took more than five years. But now the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and First Executive Vice President of AFGE National VA Council have a tentative new master collective bargaining agreement.
April 13, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ latest pause in the rollout of its new Electronic Health Record will last longer expected.
April 06, 2023 -
The Partnership for Public Service's list of the top 10 "Best Places to Work" large agencies is mostly unchanged, but many of the employee engagement and satisfaction scores continue to dwindle.
March 29, 2023 -
The Veterans Affairs Department's big medical campuses are full of physical security gaps, the VA's office of Inspector General has found. Unlocked exterior doors, broken surveillance cameras and a shortage of VA police officers top the list.
March 27, 2023 -
Top human resources officials for the Department of Veterans Affairs say a bipartisan bill raising pay caps for VA doctors and other health care providers would help keep the agency staffed up to handle its workload.
March 23, 2023 -
The largest federal employee union warns the Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t doing enough to recruit and retain the workforce it needs to keep up with the demand for VA health care and benefits.
March 21, 2023