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Veterans Pension

This program administers disability benefits to lower income veterans who are either permanently and totally disabled from injury or disease not related to service or who are 65 or older, and their survivors. The program's purpose is to assure a level of income which allows beneficiaries to live in dignity.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has a clear purpose and is clear of major design flaws that would limit its effectiveness and efficiency. The program has useful efficiency measures, such as employee productivity and accuracy measures, although it does not have sufficient outcome measures that address levels of income at which living with dignity is achieved.
  • While the program has a clear purpose and addresses a specific need, it is duplicative of other federal and state efforts, such as the Supplemental Security Income program that is administered by the Social Security Administration.
  • The relationship between budget requests and expected program performance are not clear. For example, the budget request does not relate funding levels to specific performance levels.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Collecting data from three new performance measures regarding access, income, and dignity and will begin to use that data to pursue program improvements.
  • Continuing to develop ways by which strategic targets can be made more ambitious.
  • Taking steps to link performance to budget by developing an incremental approach that provides leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs with the marginal costs of increasing performance.

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