VA suspends debt collections through September 2021 February 18 VA Secretary Denis McDonough tours a pharmacy storage area at the VA medical center in Washington, D.C., while receiving a briefing from local officials about coronavirus protocols on Feb. 10, 2021. (Robert Turtil/Veterans Affairs) Veterans Affairs officials will extend their suspension of debt collection on benefits overpayments and medical co-pays through September, officials announced on Thursday. The department had paused those debt repayments in April 2020, in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The suspension ended at the start of January, but department officials in recent weeks had received pressure from lawmakers and outside advocates to continue to show leniency in light of the ongoing pandemic.
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Veterans Affairs gets 200,000 extra COVID vaccine doses as active cases continue dropping February 12 Dr. Charles Billings, a staff orthopedic surgeon receives the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse Ayonna Williams at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Medical Center in New Orleans, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) As the number of coronavirus cases in the Department of Veterans Affairs is headed down, the number of coronavirus vaccine doses in the system is poised to increase sharply. On Thursday, the department reported a three-month low in active coronavirus cases among patients, at just under 8,500. The active case total has declined steadily over the last three weeks and is down 58 percent in the last month.