{"id":128739,"date":"2025-03-26T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/03\/26\/some-va-employees-overtime-pay-will-be-delayed-by-software-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:35:46","slug":"some-va-employees-overtime-pay-will-be-delayed-by-software-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2025\/03\/26\/some-va-employees-overtime-pay-will-be-delayed-by-software-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Some VA employees\u2019 overtime pay will be delayed by software problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paychecks for several thousand<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/03\/13\/judge-orders-return-of-dismissed-probationary-workers-at-va-dod\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Veterans Affairs employees <\/a>owed extra compensation will be shortchanged this week because of ongoing issues with payroll processing systems at the department, officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/03\/17\/va-leaders-roll-back-policy-ensuring-medical-care-for-transgender-vets\/\" target=\"_blank\">VA leaders<\/a> said the problem centers on delays within the VA Time and Attendance System. Sources within the department say outages and slowdowns have disrupted the system since late last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VA spokesman Peter Kasperowicz said officials expect all employees to receive their regular pay this week despite the software problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA portion of these employees who are due to receive additional wages, such as overtime pay, will be paid those additional wages on April 11, VA\u2019s following payday,\u201d Kasperowicz said in a statement. \u201cTo summarize: 100 percent of VA employees will be paid their normal wages on time and 98 percent of VA employees will experience no impact whatsoever from this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/03\/24\/senate-democrats-plan-shadow-hearings-on-controversial-va-cuts\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP25073602862810.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Senate Democrats plan \u2018shadow hearings\u2019 on controversial VA cuts<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The move comes as VA Secretary Doug Collins has accused Democrats of creating panic over planned department reforms.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VA is one of the largest employers in the federal government, with around 480,000 staffers. An overtime pay issue affecting about 2% of that total would still be nearly 10,000 individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior leaders from the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee said they are tracking the payroll issues but have not yet received details from VA leadership about the cause of or ultimate solution to the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe concern here is that VA needs systems that work,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/03\/11\/gop-senators-eye-legislative-guardrails-as-va-prepares-mass-job-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">committee Chairman Sen. 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