A popular kiosk-based system for veterans to file reimbursement claims for travel is returning to Veterans Health Administration facilities. The VA has paused plans to decommission the kiosks ...

The VA currently pays 41.5 cents per mile for health-related travel costs, which can now be claimed through an app.

The VA launched its online claims system in 2019 to help reimburse veterans for travel costs to VA hospitals. However, six years later, only about 30 percent of those claims are being processed.

Following complaints from veterans and a critical VA Office of Inspector General report on the VA's travel system, the department is streamlining ways for veterans to submit travel claims.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making it easier for veterans and eligible beneficiaries to submit travel claims for traveling to receive medical care. Currently, the VA will reimburse the ...

The investigation into the Seattle case, which began in early 2012, determined that two of the four VA clerks who then processed travel benefit claims, Nick Hall and Keishjuan Daniels, had been ...

This extension ends on June 9, 2023. After that date, Veterans submitting a claim for travel reimbursement will have to submit it within 30 days of their VA medical appointment.

Court papers say the claims submitted in 2015 and 2016 for travel reimbursement claim that he had driven nearly 100 miles round-trip to obtain treatment between August 2015 and October 2016.

Following complaints from veterans and a critical VA Office of Inspector General report on the VA's travel system, the department is streamlining ways for veterans to submit travel claims.