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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new permanent director for benefits is preparing the agency for another record-breaking year for processing claims.
In 2020, Congress repealed something known as the Survivor Benefit Plan - Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset.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.
The VA on Tuesday experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle-Cerner EHR that’s currently running at five sites.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ latest pause in the rollout of its new Electronic Health Record will last longer expected.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you wonder why federal employees worry, along with everyone else, consider: mini financial crises, a stubbornly bear stock market, no breakthroughs on Social Security solvency, and the debt-ceiling debate dragging out.