Veterans Benefits Administration

VBA looks to move away from mandatory overtime to reduce burnout

VA is delivering more benefits to more veterans than at any point in its history and taking steps to ensure its benefits workforce can keep up with the pace.

Workforce

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Washington DC/USA Mar 25 2019/Signboard of United States Department of Veterans Affairs(VA).The VA stands in front of Lafayette Square Park in the north of the White House.

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

Hiring/Retention

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

Veterans Affairs

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Government sometimes looks like a backlog backwater

Tom Temin Commentary

Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough

VA seeks to manage size of its health care workforce, keeps growing benefits staffing

Hiring/Retention

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

Veterans Affairs

AP/Charles Dharapak

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

Hiring/Retention

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

Veterans Affairs

How the Veterans Benefits Administration is coping with PACT Act claims

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Hiring/Retention

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

The Department of Veterans Affairs, facing an increased workload as more veterans seek VA health care and benefits, is prepared to significantly staff…

Veterans Affairs

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

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…

Veterans Affairs

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

Pay & Benefits

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.