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salary cap beginning as soon as July 1 2025 the lawmakers wrote in a letter to VA Secretary Collins During a hearing before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee in May 2025 and again during a hearing before...1 300 physicians from the Department since the beginning of the Trump Administration F iscal year 2025 marked the first time VA hired fewer physicians than it lost It is unacceptable that while your policies...above the current 400 000 salary cap beginning as soon as July 1 2025 During a hearing before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee in May 2025 and again during a hearing before the House Veterans Affairs...

employees in fiscal year 2025 88 percent of those who left the Department were health care staff including doctors nurses mental health clinicians and other frontline employees Fiscal year 2025 also marks the first...crisis The Department lost 1 000 physicians 1 500 schedulers and 3 000 registered nurses in fiscal year 2025 positions already hard to recruit before the second Trump Administration The loss of physicians alone...to replace lost capabilities Nearly half of VBA s 50 Regional Office Directors quit or retired in 2025 The loss of claims processors and support staff is slowing the processing of disability and PACT Act...

Tester continued Since the suspension of dismissals of legacy participants is ending by September 30 2025 veterans and caregivers are concerned they may be dropped from PCAFC without changes to the program...

at tanking earned disability compensation for these veterans appears ripped straight out of Project 2025 The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims recently ruled that a veteran s disability rating must be...This new rule reverses the previous standard established by the Ingram v Collins court case issued in 2025 which required VA to discount the impact of medication when evaluating the severity of claims disability...