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The Department of Veterans Affairs is reducing its IT workforce by nearly 12% through voluntary separations, reallocating over $89 million of its budget to other priorities, and pausing new IT procurements to focus on core missions and improve efficiency, while seeking legislative flexibility to enhance agility in IT spending.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a new pay model for its IT and cybersecurity employees, regardless of whether a governmentwide effort to increase tech workers’ salaries moves forward. The Special Salary Rate (SSR) is expected to significantly raise the salaries of more than 7,000 VA personnel nationwide. If adopted by all agencies, the SSR would increase the pay for about 100,000 federal IT and cyber employees governmentwide. However, the viability of a new governmentwide pay model for federal IT and cybersecurity employees is uncertain, as agencies brace for possible cuts to discretionary, nondefense spending as part of ongoing debt-ceiling negotiations.