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VHA Pay Changes 2025

Changes to Veterans Health Administration pay in 2025, including cuts and rollbacks of Special Salary Rate pay boosts and retention incentives.

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Jan 27, 2026

What appeals or presumptive condition updates in 2025 affect veterans rated 100% disabled?

The most concrete 2025 changes that affect veterans rated are adjustments to compensation rates (COLA) and several benefit-amount updates that took effect in late 2024 or are scheduled in 2025; author...

Jan 9, 2026

Which VHA employee groups saw the largest bonus increases or decreases in 2025?

The clearest changes to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) pay in 2025 were cuts and rollbacks rather than across‑the‑board increases: the Department of Veterans Affairs moved to terminate agency‑le...