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Veterans Affairs

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

VA needed emergency funding by Friday to avoid delays in compensation and pension benefit payments that go to 7 million veterans and their survivors.

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

VA chief says increased outreach, utilization drove massive budget shortfall

Budget

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

Workforce

VA ends mandatory overtime for most employees processing benefits claims

Hiring/Retention

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

Veterans Affairs

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

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Pay

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

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Workforce

VBA looks to move away from mandatory overtime to reduce burnout

Veterans Affairs

Hiring/Retention

VA looks to cut 10,000 positions from health care workforce, but seeks bigger budget in 2025

VA, IT, data

Veterans Affairs

After a year, the VA is calling its new insurance program a success

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Tom Temin Commentary

Government sometimes looks like a backlog backwater

Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough

Hiring/Retention

VA seeks to manage size of its health care workforce after hiring boom in 2023

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Veterans Affairs

What does the Veterans Affairs Department do when disaster strikes one of its record-storage facilities?

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Hiring/Retention

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

VA, IT, data

Veterans Affairs

You can't improve services to veterans without the manpower to do it

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs

How the Veterans Benefits Administration is coping with PACT Act claims

FILE - In this June 21, 2013, file photo, the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. The Department of Veterans Affairs is warning of a rapidly growing backlog for veterans who seek to appeal decisions involving disability benefits, saying it will need much more staff even as money remains in question due to a tightening Trump administration budget. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Veterans Affairs

VBA rolling out more automation tools this summer, but expects uptick in backlog

Hiring/Retention

VBA turns to ‘aggressive hiring,’ automation tools to keep pace with PACT Act claims

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs

VA makes ‘full court press’ on recruiting, retaining staff with new workforce incentives

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Veterans Affairs

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

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Pay & Benefits

Senators seek to raise VA doctor pay caps to boost agency’s hiring efforts

IT modernization

Veterans Affairs

VBA looks to hire thousands more employees to speed up benefits claims processing

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