Data / Federal rules / 2024-25975
Changes in Rates VA Pays for Special Modes of Transportation; Delay of Effective Date From February 16, 2025, Until February 16, 2029
The Veterans Affairs Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 12, 2024. It takes effect on February 16, 2029.
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What the agency says
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published in the Federal Register on February 16, 2023, a final rule to amend its beneficiary travel regulations to establish a new payment methodology for special modes of transportation available through the VA beneficiary travel program. The preamble of that final rule stated the effective date was February 16, 2024. VA published in the Federal Register on December 29, 2023, a final rule to delay the effective date for the rule from February 16, 2024, to February 16, 2025. This rulemaking further delays the effective date of February 16, 2025, to February 16, 2029.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-25975
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; delay of effective date
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs Department
- Published
- November 12, 2024
- Takes effect
- February 16, 2029
- Dates
- Effective Date: The effective date for the final rule published February 16, 2023, at 88 FR 10032, and delayed on December 29, 2023, at 88 FR 90120, until February 16, 2025, is further delayed until February 16, 2029.
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2900-AS19
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 38 CFR 70
- Pages
- 2
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