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VA, AFGE support parts of bipartisan bill to refine how agency fires poor performers

VA’s top human resources official told lawmakers Wednesday that the department endorses core elements of the 2023 Leadership, Engagement, Accountability,…

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Veterans Homeless Grants

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

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AP/Charles DharapakFILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington.  In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA extends PACT Act deadline to Aug. 14 for backdated benefits after website issues

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Senate VA bill directs agency to rethink how it fires poor-performing employees

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VA EHR linked to veterans ‘fatally harmed,’ senators say, but agency still sees way forward for project

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VBA sees automation tools as ‘game-changer’ to keep up with record workload

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VA embarks on year-end push to implement workforce elements of PACT Act

The Department of Veterans Affairs is embarking on a year-end push to implement all the workforce provisions of the recently passed PACT Act as the agency…

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IT modernization

VA looks to overhaul pay, ‘antiquated’ hiring processes in major veteran care bill

The Honoring Our PACT Act would expand disability compensation and health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service.

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VA hired 59,000 employees this fiscal year, but still struggles with workforce shortages

The Department of Veterans Affairs hired thousands of health care employees through a streamlined hiring process since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s calling on Congress to make some of these hiring flexibilities permanent.

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