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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
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
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.
Veterans fight changes to disability payments
Tags: Congressional Budget Office , Jeff Miller , Congress , Bernie Sanders
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
Shinseki says VA on target for ending backlog
Tags: Eric Shinseki , Jeff Miller , House Committee on Veterans Affairs , House
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
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
Joint Chiefs welcome House fiscal 2013 budget proposal
The lower chamber's bill would significantly soften the blow against DoD and potentially eliminate current plans such as civilian furloughs because of the automatic budget cuts. The remainder of the government would remain under both sequestration and a full-year continuing resolution.
Tags: DoD , sequestration , Congress , continuing resolution , Ray Odierno , Jonathan Greenert , Mark Welsh , James Amos , Jared Serbu , House Appropriations Committee , House ,
House budget plan includes fed pay freeze extension
House Republicans unveiled a stopgap government funding measure Monday. The measure would extend the federal pay freeze and leave in place automatic sequestration cuts but would award the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments their detailed 2013 budgets while other agencies would be frozen at 2012 levels -- and then bear the across-the-board cuts. The current continuing resolution expires March 27.
Tags: budget , sequestration , pay freeze , DoD , House , House Appropriations Committee , Hal Rogers , President Barack Obama
