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SBA starting new lending program for veterans

The Small Business Administration announced Tuesday it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.

Tags: SBA , loans ,

Tuesday - 05/21/2013, 07:31am EDT

VA expedites disability claims for vets at back of the line

Veterans waiting more than a year for a decision on their disability claims are moving to the front of the line, under a new program announced Friday.

Tags: disability claims , disability claims backlog , veterans , Veterans Benefits Administration

Monday - 04/22/2013, 06:14am EDT

Coalition for Government Procurement 2013 Spring Conference

Attendees at the 2013 Coalition for Government Procurement's Spring Conference will engage in a government-industry "Mythbusters" dialogue with acquisition leadership from the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration and others about key procurement issues that impact members' government business.

Tags: Coalition for Government Procurement , Roger Waldron , Iris Cooper , training , Federal Drive

Wednesday - 04/17/2013, 01:24pm EDT

Auditors find low enrollment in vets jobs program

Federal auditors say a job-training program designed to help veterans re-enter the workforce has more than 60,000 empty slots, left unfilled despite efforts to reduce the jobless rate among veterans.

Tags: DoD , workforce

Wednesday - 04/17/2013, 04:54am EDT

VA pushes DoD to adopt VistA as starting point for electronic health record

Under a revised strategy for creating an interagency e-health record, VA will use its current system, VistA. The department believes DoD should adopt it too.

Tags: Integrated Electronic Health Record , Elizabeth McGrath , Stephen Warren , Jared Serbu , DoD

Thursday - 03/28/2013, 10:48am EDT
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Whistleblowers allege wrongdoing at VA center

In the letter sent Monday to the White House and Congress, the Office of Special Counsel said an initial 2009 report by a whistleblower employee at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., alleged that the staff routinely failed to properly clean and sterilize reusable medical equipment such as scalpels and bone cutters.

Tags: whistleblower , Office of Special Counsel , Eric Shinseki , Congress

Tuesday - 03/19/2013, 04:00am EDT

Former VA researcher raises ethics concerns

Dr. Steven Coughlin, who worked at the VA until December, said nearly 2,000 participants in a recent VA study of 60,000 tracking the health of veterans told researchers they had thought they would be better off dead. However, only a small percentage got a call back from a clinician.

Tags: Stephen Coughlin , suicides , House

Thursday - 03/14/2013, 05:00am EDT
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