House Veterans Affairs Committee

VA warns of historic $15B budget shortfall. House committee says more hiring ‘above all’ is driving up costs

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ financial experts tell lawmakers that the historic funding discrepancy is due to increased hiring and pharmaceutical…

Budget

VA paid nearly $11M in bonuses to ineligible executives, watchdog finds

Pay

VA puts AI use cases into ‘operational phase’ to meet its health care mission

Artificial Intelligence

VA sexual harassment investigation recommends firing, recouping bonuses from supervisors

Workforce

VA watchdogs raise alarms about steps missed screening hires with drug felonies

Hiring/Retention

VA outlines fixes to VA.gov errors impacting benefits for more than 120,000 veterans

IT Modernization

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Whistle blower or whistleblower concept as a symbol of a secret informer agent posing as an employee with his cast shadow of a whistle as a metaphor for inside infoermation on misconduct in a 3D illustration style.

Still a lot of work to do to gain the trust of VA whistleblowers

Veterans Affairs

VA whistleblower office no longer ‘agency in crisis.’ But lawmakers question its results

Workforce

VA IT officials say missed ‘error check’ delayed discovery of VA.gov issues

IT Modernization

First Look

VA committee leaders demand ‘guardrails’ for bonuses as agency claws back payouts to career executives

Pay

VA wraps first-wave EHR fixes, but employees ‘strongly disagree’ it’s ready to move forward

IT Modernization

VA, AFGE reach ‘historic’ settlement to reinstate, compensate thousands of wrongfully fired feds

The department expects the settlement agreement with AFGE to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but it will take years to either reinstate or compensate…

Veterans Affairs

VA says ‘true independent’ oversight coming to major acquisitions after lawmaker probes

The Department of Veterans Affairs is laying the groundwork for greater oversight of its major acquisitions, following repeated probes from lawmakers….

Contracting

House GOP pushes bill to fast-track firing at VA. Agency leaders doubt it’ll help

Veterans Affairs

Top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading a bill to let the Department of Veterans Affairs once again fire employees more quickly.