Veterans Affairs
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Deliberately bad advice can help a veteran get pension benefits out of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sometimes the advisers take the money for themselves.
April 19, 2022 -
Over 90 agencies release 300 new actions aiming to expand opportunities in federal services for disadvantaged communities.
April 14, 2022 -
Agencies embracing DevSecOps tout its potential to enhance communication, customer experience and IT security at every stage of a product’s lifecycle.
April 11, 2022 -
Terry Adirim, executive director of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office, told reporters in a call Thursday that the cause was a bug in an Oracle server, but said an investigation is still ongoing.
April 08, 2022 -
VA's supply chain modernization must happen, and it must be done in a way that improves the delivery of services to veterans while it also improves the systems and tools used by the VA employees who work so diligently to serve them.
April 06, 2022 -
The number of women veterans has been growing steadily over the years and so has the number of women veteran entrepreneurs.
March 30, 2022 -
The Veterans Affairs Department is the latest agency to bring its workforce back to the office, but is envisioning a hybrid workplace to improve recruitment and retention.
March 22, 2022 -
Burn pits, they're the agent orange of the most recent generation of veterans. Veterans who were exposed to the open junk incinerators in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained of resulting health maladies. President Joe Biden mentioned it in his state of the union speech. Some VA benefits have begun to trickle out.
March 21, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding requirements.
March 18, 2022 -
VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced a plan to revamp VA health care facilities by closing and tearing down some, building new ones, establishing outpatient centers and moving more care to the private sector.
March 18, 2022 -
Veterans Affairs and the American Federation of Government Employees more than spar over the recommendations for realigning VA people and facilities
March 18, 2022 -
The IG reports found the rollout of the new EHR sometimes failed to indicate to providers that patients were flagged as being at high risk of suicide and gave VA providers an incomplete picture of a patients' health care data.
March 17, 2022 -
For several years now, the Department of Veterans Affairs has operated a grant program to help disabled veterans adapt their homes. The program is called Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology.
March 16, 2022 -
On orders from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been doing a detailed study of nearly 100 health care markets nationwide.
March 16, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House Democrats seek to block the Postal Service from buying mostly gas-powered vehicles as part of its next generation fleet.
March 14, 2022