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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.
Congress has punted the tough debates on government funding for the rest of fiscal 2022 until mid-February, but Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said he's already worrying about the prospect of a full-year continuing resolution.
December being National Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month, VBA has programs in place to protect its own assets and to help veterans protect theirs.
The Veterans Benefits Administration has started delivering disability payments to service members exposed to burn pits. But that isn't the end of the story according to the co-founder and special counsel at the National Veterans Legal Services Program.
The Veterans Benefits Administration is about to start paying disability benefits for those exposed to fumes from burn pits in the Middle East as far back as the Gulf War. For what it means to VBA, Federal Drive spoke with Executive Director of Compensation Service, Beth Murphy
After spending three years as Undersecretary for Veterans Benefits during the Trump administration, Paul Lawrence has learned a few lessons.