VA breaks records for veterans served despite slowing hiring

The Veterans Affairs Department delivered record levels of health care and benefits to veterans in fiscal 2024, achieving the new highs despite tapering its ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is now seeking a budget boost to meet staffing needs and veterans demands for fiscal 2025, ...

VA delivered all-time record care and benefits to Veterans in fiscal ...

VA also processed 2,517,519 disability benefit claims, a 27% increase over last year's all-time record. Earning Veteran Trust: Veteran trust in ...

VA to slow hiring pace after adding tens of thousands of workers

VA reached more than 400000 staff for the first time in history last year, as it brought in more than 61000 hires to the Veterans Health ...

VA People: What's the latest you're hearing about recruitment, job ...

Quality clinicians (with positive feedback from Veterans in Vsignals and high productivity) are leaving because they are just burned out.

Despite hiring efforts, 92% of VA facilities report severe nursing ...

The Veterans Affairs Department is falling further behind on finding candidates to meet its staffing needs, despite record hiring levels.

A little-known law has forced over 120,000 veterans to return the ...

A federal law has forced nearly 122000 disabled veterans to return lump-sum incentives they received to leave the military, according to new ...

Balancing the Record on the Claims Backlog - VA News

Under Secretary for Benefits; Air Force Veteran There has been a lot of discussion recently about the compensation claims backlog and what VA is doing about ...

VA's historic hiring surge leads to all-time record for veteran care ...

VA's historic hiring surge leads to all-time record for veteran care and benefits ... The Department of Veterans Affairs says major hiring efforts ...

VA job cuts are unethical and immoral : r/fednews - Reddit

Between 1954 and 2000, the share of veterans receiving disability compensation was very stable, fluctuating between 8 percent and 10 percent.

Frontline VA health jobs cut despite officials saying they'd largely be ...

VA staffing cuts include health care workers despite officials suggesting they'd be protected. Veterans already faced long wait times for ...

Huge Hiring Burst in January of 517,000 Jobs Brings Down Vets ...

Huge Hiring Burst in January of 517,000 Jobs Brings Down Vets' Unemployment Rate to 2.8% · Latest Benefits Info. US Family Health Plan · Army. ' ...

2023: End-of-year Veteran benefits update - VA News

Although the backlog has increased, you will likely receive a benefits decision more quickly than during previous surges: Right now, the average ...

VA Secretary press conference, Monday, February 26, 2024

Second item, starting April 20th, as part of our digital GI Bill Modernization Initiative, VA will no longer send Veterans or family members ...

Senators blast Biden administration's staffing plans for veterans ...

Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, and Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, demanded to know why the VA has paused hiring and planned to cut ...

Veterans Jobless Rate Drops Sharply Amid Unexpected September ...

The unemployment rate for the generation of veterans who served after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks fell by a full percentage point to ...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FY 2024 BUDGET ...

Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) benefits for over 144,000 Veterans. ... VBA continues to serve millions of Veterans across multiple benefits programs.

Record workload for VA in 2023 means more hiring in 2024

“Last year we grew by more than 20% of the total Veterans Benefits Administration workforce, and we are actively continuing to hire more in the ...

Decision wait times - Board of Veterans' Appeals

The Board notes this is down substantially from nearly 475,000 appeals waiting for a decision just six years ago, which is significant ...

VHA tells leaders to rescind job offers only as a 'last resort' to ...

The Veterans Health Administration, in recent memos, put a temporary pause on pulling back job offers, then told leadership and HR officials ...