Recognizing a growing need to recruit more staff and keep pace with its hiring efforts, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently released its “Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention Incentives for VHA Positions Need Improved Oversight” report. The document provides information about the numerous challenges the VA has faced in maintaining adequate staffing levels to support its service programs.

Initially, when it wanted to boost its staffing, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began offering incentives to new staff members, paying approximately $828 million to 130,000 employees in fiscal 2022–2023, according to the report. Nearly 90% of the funds allocated in 2022 and 88% in 2023 were directed to employees on shortage lists; however, Veterans Affairs failed to establish prop

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