Veterans Benefits Administration

In this nutty market, can veterans actually buy a home with the VA home loan program?

For an update, VA’s Executive Director of Loan Guaranty John Bell III spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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(AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

McDonough warns of ‘deleterious’ impact of full-year continuing resolution on VA operations

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(Sean McKeag/The Citizens' Voice via AP)FILE - In this March 20, 2021, file photo, Navy veteran Ronnie Jackson, of Blakeslee, Pa., receives a COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Fran McLean at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center in Plains Township, Pa. After more than a year of isolation, American veterans are embracing plans for a more traditional Memorial Day. Advocates say it’s also a time to take stock of the veteran lives lost to the coronavirus and to recommit to vaccinating those who remain reluctant. (Sean McKeag/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

Vaccination rates vary inside VA as mandate expands to broader federal workforce

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(Partnership for Public Service photo)Service to America Medals, Sammies

How one Veterans Affairs employee’s ingenuity took a big bite out of VA’s appeals backlog

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/Ольга SimankovaFather and son working on laptop. businessman working from home and watching child. spending time with kid. Young man working on computer. StartUp. Freelance concept. successful modern family.

NSA wants you to be careful where you log in to telework

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TMF

House lawmakers eye TMF funding as possible solution to NARA’s records backlog

A bipartisan group of House members are urging the National Archives and Records Administration to apply for assistance through Technology Modernization…

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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Veteran Affairs building near the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2018. An internal watchdog's investigation has found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and likely wrongly used taxpayer money to cover his wife's airfare for an 11-day European trip. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

VA will miss its original 2022 deadline for resolving legacy appeals

The pandemic has created bottlenecks within multiple points of the disability claims and appeals process, leaving the Department of Veterans Affairs to…

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Data integrity remains an issue for VA, despite improvements

A new report from VA’s inspector general illustrates how discrepancies in vacancy counts add to ongoing staffing issues within the agency, despite some improvements in recent years.

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