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The Veterans Benefits Administration is looking to accelerate its use of automation tools this summer, to keep pace with its workload and break new records on the number of claims it can process in a year.
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new permanent director for benefits is preparing the agency for another record-breaking year for processing claims.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, facing an increased workload as more veterans seek VA health care and benefits, is prepared to significantly staff up under the Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 budget request.
The VA needs to keep breaking new records for claims processed, if it hopes to keep pace with a workload surge under the burn-pit toxic exposure legislation signed into law last summer.
The VA CAREERS Act would set higher base pay caps for VA physicians, podiatrists, optometrists and dentists as the Veterans Affairs Department looks to grow its health care workforce.
The Veterans Benefits Administration is using new PACT Act authorities and funding to hire an additional 1,900 employees in the first half of fiscal 2023.
The Veterans Benefits Administration is looking to bring several thousand hires onboard to “maximize its capacity”, as it prepares to implement legislation that will make millions of new veterans eligible for VA health care and benefits.
The nation's veterans have served the country but life after the military often comes with special financial challenges made tougher by inflation.
Kshemendra Paul, the VA's first permanent chief data officer, is leaving the agency in November to join the Energy Department as an assistant inspector general.
Some members of Congress and veterans support organizations think a fourth administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs is necessary to add focus on transition, employment and education.
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 Carolina. Since 2017, veterans from that era are presumed to have service-related illnesses from drinking that water.
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.
For an update, VA's Executive Director of Loan Guaranty John Bell III spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Automation can help VA process survivors claims when a veteran passes away, which currently takes more than two months on average.