Veterans Benefits Administration

FILE - 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)

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

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) needs talent in all sorts of areas. Needing to fill differing jobs requires differing recruitment practices.

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How the Veterans Benefits Administration is coping with PACT Act claims

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

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

Hiring/Retention

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

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

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

Pay & Benefits

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

Veterans Affairs

VA hiring to ‘maximum capacity’ to assist vets seeking PACT Act benefits

Benefits

Veterans deal with unique financial and lifestyle challenges

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VA’s first permanent chief data officer Kshemendra Paul leaving agency

People

Veteran Affairs building near the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2018. An internal watchdog's investigation has found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and likely wrongly used taxpayer money to cover his wife's airfare for an 11-day European trip. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Lawmakers, veterans support organizations pitch new VA administration for education, employment

Some members of Congress and veterans support organizations think a fourth administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs is necessary to add…

Veterans Affairs

VBA needs to tighten up procedures to get poison-water benefits to Camp Lejeune veterans

For a period of some 35 years, a million people were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, the Marines base camp in North…

Agency Oversight

Iraqi army units are deployed during military operations of the Iraqi Army's Seventh Brigade in Anbar, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. An Iraqi general said Sunday that security has been beefed up around the Ain al-Asad air base, a sprawling complex in the western Anbar desert that hosts U.S. forces, following a series of attacks. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Pentagon says military needs to adapt to increasingly hotter world

Federal Newscast

Also in today’s Federal Newscast, the Biden administration takes action to make sure public research results are available to the public. And the Air Force is partnering with NASA for experiments aboard the International Space Station.