PACT Act

VBA steps up veteran outreach to complete 300,000 pending PACT Act benefits claims

The VA recently approved its millionth disability claim under a historic expansion of benefits. But it’s stepping up efforts to get more claims in.

Veterans Affairs

New insight into pulmonary health threat to U.S. troops stationed overseas

Defense

VA launches historic health care expansion under accelerated PACT Act eligibility timeline

Veterans Affairs

Exclusive

House lawmakers seek higher pay for VA radiation specialists treating vets with cancer

Pay

(AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

VA tapping into special pay authorities to make in-demand hires

Pay

Exclusive

VA makes data-sharing pledge for ‘seamless’ veteran health care across 13 health care systems

Veterans Affairs

VA cancels nearly $10M in bonuses paid to more career executives than intended

Pay

VA hospitals do pretty darn well in a national survey

Veterans Affairs

VA vows ‘full review’ of website after IT issues impact disability claims for nearly 57,000 veterans

IT Modernization

VHA expects to ‘far surpass’ — and possibly double — its year-end hiring goal

Hiring/Retention

VHA on track to hit hiring targets, sets sights on shortages in ‘critical’ occupations

Veterans Affairs

How the Veterans Benefits Administration is coping with PACT Act claims

The PACT Act, which became law in 2022, aims to help veterans who were exposed to toxins. Since June 3, it has sparked more than 625,000 new claims.

Veterans Affairs

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS faces $20B cut from modernization fund under debt ceiling agreement

The IRS is facing substantial cuts to funds meant to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT systems over the next decade, as part of a deal…

Congress

VHA tells facilities to implement most PACT Act workforce authorities by year’s end

Hiring/Retention

The VA is setting a systemwide goal to have every network using at least half of PACT Act hiring authorities implemented by the end of the year.