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Budget

VA updates FY 2025 health care budget shortfall to $6.6B, nearly half its previous estimate

The Veterans Health Administration saw about a 40% reduction in the use of payment incentives between fiscal 2023 and 2024.

Veterans Affairs

VHA says $12B budget shortfall is 'overestimate,' still needs more funding to keep hiring

Veterans Affairs

Senate passes $3B VA supplemental funding bill, averting delay in veterans’ benefits

Veterans Affairs

$3B VA supplemental passes House, senators urge final vote by Friday deadline

Hiring/Retention

VA plans to keep growing health care workforce, if Congress fixes $12B shortfall in FY 2025 budget

Veterans Affairs

VA hiring fell ‘significantly short’ in plan to treat substance abuse in vets

Veterans Affairs

VA hospitals outscore private sector in nationwide surveys

FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs updates its database for burn pit research

VA bonuses, Veterans Homeless Grants

Budget

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

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)

Hiring/Retention

VA secretary admits ‘massive mistakes’ over improper executive bonuses, rejects calls for firings

Denis McDonough

Veterans Affairs

VA touts engaged workforce as key to highest-ever veteran trust scores

FILE - This Monday, April 28, 2014 file photo shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center. Weeks after receiving emergency aid in August 2017, the Department of Veterans Affairs is cautioning that the Veterans Choice private-sector health program backed by President Donald Trump could run low again on money sooner than expected, threatening to disrupt care for hundreds of thousands of veterans in two months. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Veterans Affairs

VA sees more patients, cuts wait times, despite higher workload

VA bonuses, Veterans Homeless Grants

Pay

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

VA bonuses, Veterans Homeless Grants

Pay

Exclusive VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

A person accesses the Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR system on a laptop.

IT Modernization

Recent VA EHR rollout ‘most successful’ so far, but IG outlines recent problems

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Hiring/Retention

Most VA sites scheduling more medical appointments through 'access sprints'

Denis McDonough

Hiring/Retention

McDonough says 'tighter fiscal picture' at VA requires careful planning to continue health care hiring

Veterans Affairs

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

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Workforce

VHA launches ‘access sprints’ to offer more medical appointments to veterans

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Veterans Affairs

VA launches ‘full hiring initiative’ for mental health care amid uptick in veteran suicides

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Federal Report

VHA surpassed its hiring goals. Now it’s training HR experts to keep workforce growing

VA, IT, data

Hiring/Retention

VA’s historic hiring surge leads to all-time record for veteran care and benefits

VA, IT, data

Hiring/Retention

VHA more than doubles workforce growth target, prioritizes HR hiring