38 CFR - Title 38—Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief
Title 38 published on 2012-07-01
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GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28621 RIN 2900-AO43 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule; confirmation of effective date and addition of applicability date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective June 18, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule shall apply to decisions issued by the Board on or after August 23, 2011. 38 CFR Parts 3 and 20 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its hearing regulations to repeal a prior amendment that specified that the provisions regarding hearings before the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) do not apply to hearings before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board). VA received no significant adverse comment concerning this rule. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on June 18, 2012. Additionally, in the preamble of the direct final rule, VA did not provide an applicability date. This document provides an applicability date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28621 RIN 2900-AO43 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule; confirmation of effective date and addition of applicability date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective June 18, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule shall apply to decisions issued by the Board on or after August 23, 2011. 38 CFR Parts 3 and 20 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its hearing regulations to repeal a prior amendment that specified that the provisions regarding hearings before the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) do not apply to hearings before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board). VA received no significant adverse comment concerning this rule. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on June 18, 2012. Additionally, in the preamble of the direct final rule, VA did not provide an applicability date. This document provides an applicability date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28611 RIN 2900-AO30 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective December 26, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule will apply to claims for SGLI proceeds filed on or after December 26, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) regulations in order to provide that, if a stillborn child is otherwise eligible to be insured by the SGLI coverage of more than one servicemember under SGLI dependent child coverage, the child would be insured by the coverage of the child's SGLI-insured biological mother. This final rule will provide consistency in payment determinations involving SGLI stillborn child coverage.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-26580 RIN 2900-AO24 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective November 1, 2012. Applicability Date: VA will apply this rule to veterans released from service on or after November 1, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule that amends the regulations governing eligibility for Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) to extend to 240 days the current 120-day “no-health” period during which veterans can apply for VGLI without proving that they are in good health for insurance purposes. The purpose of this rule is to increase the opportunities for disabled veterans to enroll in VGLI, some of whom would not qualify for VGLI coverage under existing provisions. This document adopts as a final rule, without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2012.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-25353 RIN 2900-AO09 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective October 16, 2012. Applicability Date: The provisions of this final rule shall apply to all applications for benefits that are or have been received by VA on or after December 29, 2011, or that were pending before VA, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on December 29, 2011. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule to affirm an amendment to its adjudication regulation regarding compensation for disabilities experienced by veterans who served in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War. This amendment is necessary to extend the period during which disabilities associated with undiagnosed illnesses and medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illnesses must become manifest in order for a veteran to be eligible for compensation. Additionally, in this final rule, VA will correct the adjudication section title that was amended and published in the Federal Register on September 29, 2010, but inadvertently changed to the original title.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-24391 RIN 2900-AN40 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective November 2, 2012. Applicability Date: This rule is applicable to any claim for SGLI or VGLI proceeds, including a claim for a payment under 38 CFR 9.20, Traumatic injury protection, filed on or after November 2, 2012, and to any such claim filed before that date that has not been paid or denied as of that date. Comment Date: Comments on the omission of the term “domestic partner” from the definition of a “member of the family” must be submitted by December 3, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations governing Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) to prohibit payment of insurance proceeds payable because of the death of a person whose life was insured under SGLI or VGLI (decedent) or payment of a SGLI Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI) benefit to a person who is convicted of intentionally and wrongfully killing the decedent or determined in a civil proceeding to have intentionally and wrongfully killed the decedent (slayer) and to any family member of the slayer. These provisions apply also to any person who assisted the slayer in causing the death of the decedent. Additionally, this document contains an interim final amendment that defines the term “member of the family” not to include a “domestic partner.”
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23775 RIN 2900-AO36 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Direct final rule. Effective: This rule is effective on November 26, 2012, without further notice, unless VA receives a significant adverse comment by October 29, 2012. If significant adverse comment is received, VA will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal Register . 38 CFR Part 51 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking direct final action to amend its regulations concerning per diem payments to State homes for the provision of nursing home care to veterans. Specifically, this rule removes the requirement that a veteran must have resided in a State home for 30 consecutive days before VA will pay per diem for that veteran when there is no overnight stay. The intended effect of this direct final rule is to permit per diem payments to State homes for veterans who do not stay overnight, regardless of how long the veterans have resided at the State homes, so that the State homes will hold the veterans' beds until the veterans return.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23730 RIN 2900-AN79 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. This final rule is effective October 26, 2012. 38 CFR Part 60 This final rule amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations concerning Fisher Houses and other temporary lodging furnished by VA while a veteran is experiencing an episode of care at a VA health care facility. This final rule better describes the application process for this lodging and clarifies the distinctions between Fisher Houses and other temporary lodging provided by VA. This final rule generally reflects current VA policy and practice, and conforms to industry standards and expectations.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23513 RIN 2900-AO26 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective May 7, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its regulation that governs VA services that are not subject to copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care or outpatient medical care. Specifically, the regulation exempted in-home video telehealth care from having any required copayment. VA received no significant adverse comments concerning this rule or its companion substantially identical proposed rule published on the same date. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on May 7, 2012. In a companion document in this issue of the Federal Register , we are withdrawing as unnecessary the proposed rule.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-21816 RIN 2900-AN95 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: September 5, 2012. 38 CFR Part 1 This document adopts as final, without change, the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2011. This final rule removes a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulatory restriction on the sharing of certain medical information with the Department of Defense (DoD) that is not required by the applicable statute and is inconsistent with the intent and purpose of that statute.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-21784 RIN 2900-AN51 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective October 5, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations concerning veterans in need of service dogs. Under this final rule, VA will provide to veterans with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments benefits to support the use of a service dog as part of the management of such impairments. The benefits include assistance with veterinary care, travel benefits associated with obtaining and training a dog, and the provision, maintenance, and replacement of hardware required for the dog to perform the tasks necessary to assist such veterans.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-17069 RIN 2900-AO33 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: July 13, 2012. 38 CFR Part 0 This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) regulations concerning the standards of ethical conduct and related responsibilities of its employees by adding a new subpart for VA's Core Values and Characteristics. These foundational values and organizational characteristics define VA employees and articulate what VA stands for, respectively, and they are a set of guidelines that will be applied Department-wide to all VA employees. This final rule establishes VA's Core Values and Characteristics, and ensures their proper application to the VA workforce.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-16810 RIN 2900-AO38 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective July 10, 2012. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule to amend its adjudication regulation regarding the additional statutory amount of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payable to a surviving spouse with one or more children below the age of 18. The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2006 redesignated the statutory section cited in VA's governing regulation. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulation to the statutory provision.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-16812 RIN 2900-AO22 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective July 10, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule applies to an application for dependency and indemnity compensation that: • Is received by VA on or after October 1, 2011; • Was received by VA before October 1, 2011, but had not been decided by a VA regional office as of that date; • Is appealed to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) on or after October 1, 2011; • Was appealed to the Board before October 1, 2011, but had not been decided by the Board as of that date; or • Is pending before VA on or after October 1, 2011, because the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims vacated a Board decision on the application and remanded it for readjudication. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulation regarding benefits for survivors of former prisoners of war who were rated totally disabled at the time of death. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulation to the authorizing statutory provision. The effect of this amendment is to liberalize the eligibility criteria for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) based on the death of a former prisoner of war whose service-connected disabilities had been continuously rated totally disabling for at least 1 year when he or she died.
Title 38 published on 2012-07-01
The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to Title 38 after this date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28778 RIN 2900-AO47 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Direct final rule. This final rule is effective on January 28, 2013, without further notice, unless VA receives a significant adverse comment by December 28, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking direct final action to amend its regulation governing payment by VA for non-VA outpatient care under VA's statutory authority to provide non-VA care. Under this authority, VA may contract for certain hospital care (inpatient care) and medical services (outpatient care) for eligible veterans when VA facilities are not capable of providing such services due to geographical inaccessibility or are not capable of providing the services needed. This amendment revises VA's existing regulation in accordance with statutory authority to remove a limitation on which veterans are eligible for medical services under this authority.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28776 RIN 2900-AO46 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule. VA must receive comments on or before December 28, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulation governing payment by VA for non-VA outpatient care under VA's statutory authority to provide non-VA care. Under this authority, VA may contract for certain hospital care (inpatient care) and medical services (outpatient care) for eligible veterans when VA facilities are not capable of providing such services due to geographical inaccessibility or are not capable of providing the services needed. This proposed amendment would revise VA's existing regulation in accordance with statutory authority to remove a limitation on which veterans are eligible for medical services under this authority.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28621 RIN 2900-AO43 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule; confirmation of effective date and addition of applicability date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective June 18, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule shall apply to decisions issued by the Board on or after August 23, 2011. 38 CFR Parts 3 and 20 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its hearing regulations to repeal a prior amendment that specified that the provisions regarding hearings before the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) do not apply to hearings before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board). VA received no significant adverse comment concerning this rule. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on June 18, 2012. Additionally, in the preamble of the direct final rule, VA did not provide an applicability date. This document provides an applicability date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28621 RIN 2900-AO43 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule; confirmation of effective date and addition of applicability date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective June 18, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule shall apply to decisions issued by the Board on or after August 23, 2011. 38 CFR Parts 3 and 20 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its hearing regulations to repeal a prior amendment that specified that the provisions regarding hearings before the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) do not apply to hearings before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board). VA received no significant adverse comment concerning this rule. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on June 18, 2012. Additionally, in the preamble of the direct final rule, VA did not provide an applicability date. This document provides an applicability date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28611 RIN 2900-AO30 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective December 26, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule will apply to claims for SGLI proceeds filed on or after December 26, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) regulations in order to provide that, if a stillborn child is otherwise eligible to be insured by the SGLI coverage of more than one servicemember under SGLI dependent child coverage, the child would be insured by the coverage of the child's SGLI-insured biological mother. This final rule will provide consistency in payment determinations involving SGLI stillborn child coverage.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28437 RIN 2900-AO31 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule; correction. 38 CFR Part 3 In a document published in the Federal Register on November 5, 2012 (77 FR 66419), the Department of Veterans Affairs amended its adjudication regulations regarding a certificate of eligibility for financial assistance in the purchase of an automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment. The document contained several grammatical errors in the preamble and regulatory text. This document corrects the errors and does not make any substantive change to the content of the proposed rule.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-26607 RIN 2900-AO31 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule. Written comments must be received on or before January 4, 2013. Applicability Date: VA would apply this rule to all claims for benefits received on or after October 1, 2011. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulation regarding a certificate of eligibility for financial assistance in the purchase of an automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment. The amendment is necessary to incorporate statutory changes made by the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-26580 RIN 2900-AO24 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective November 1, 2012. Applicability Date: VA will apply this rule to veterans released from service on or after November 1, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule that amends the regulations governing eligibility for Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) to extend to 240 days the current 120-day “no-health” period during which veterans can apply for VGLI without proving that they are in good health for insurance purposes. The purpose of this rule is to increase the opportunities for disabled veterans to enroll in VGLI, some of whom would not qualify for VGLI coverage under existing provisions. This document adopts as a final rule, without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2012.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-25353 RIN 2900-AO09 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective October 16, 2012. Applicability Date: The provisions of this final rule shall apply to all applications for benefits that are or have been received by VA on or after December 29, 2011, or that were pending before VA, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on December 29, 2011. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule to affirm an amendment to its adjudication regulation regarding compensation for disabilities experienced by veterans who served in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War. This amendment is necessary to extend the period during which disabilities associated with undiagnosed illnesses and medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illnesses must become manifest in order for a veteran to be eligible for compensation. Additionally, in this final rule, VA will correct the adjudication section title that was amended and published in the Federal Register on September 29, 2010, but inadvertently changed to the original title.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-24391 RIN 2900-AN40 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective November 2, 2012. Applicability Date: This rule is applicable to any claim for SGLI or VGLI proceeds, including a claim for a payment under 38 CFR 9.20, Traumatic injury protection, filed on or after November 2, 2012, and to any such claim filed before that date that has not been paid or denied as of that date. Comment Date: Comments on the omission of the term “domestic partner” from the definition of a “member of the family” must be submitted by December 3, 2012. 38 CFR Part 9 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations governing Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) to prohibit payment of insurance proceeds payable because of the death of a person whose life was insured under SGLI or VGLI (decedent) or payment of a SGLI Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI) benefit to a person who is convicted of intentionally and wrongfully killing the decedent or determined in a civil proceeding to have intentionally and wrongfully killed the decedent (slayer) and to any family member of the slayer. These provisions apply also to any person who assisted the slayer in causing the death of the decedent. Additionally, this document contains an interim final amendment that defines the term “member of the family” not to include a “domestic partner.”
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23775 RIN 2900-AO36 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Direct final rule. Effective: This rule is effective on November 26, 2012, without further notice, unless VA receives a significant adverse comment by October 29, 2012. If significant adverse comment is received, VA will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal Register . 38 CFR Part 51 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking direct final action to amend its regulations concerning per diem payments to State homes for the provision of nursing home care to veterans. Specifically, this rule removes the requirement that a veteran must have resided in a State home for 30 consecutive days before VA will pay per diem for that veteran when there is no overnight stay. The intended effect of this direct final rule is to permit per diem payments to State homes for veterans who do not stay overnight, regardless of how long the veterans have resided at the State homes, so that the State homes will hold the veterans' beds until the veterans return.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23777 RIN 2900-AO37 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule. Written comments must be received on or before October 29, 2012. 38 CFR Part 51 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend its regulations concerning per diem payments to State homes for the provision of nursing home care to veterans. Specifically, this rule would remove the requirement that a veteran must have resided in a State home for 30 consecutive days before VA will pay per diem for that veteran when there is no overnight stay. The intended effect of this proposed rule is to permit per diem payments to State homes for veterans who do not stay overnight, regardless of how long the veterans have resided at the State homes, so that the State homes will hold the veterans' beds until the veterans return.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23730 RIN 2900-AN79 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. This final rule is effective October 26, 2012. 38 CFR Part 60 This final rule amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations concerning Fisher Houses and other temporary lodging furnished by VA while a veteran is experiencing an episode of care at a VA health care facility. This final rule better describes the application process for this lodging and clarifies the distinctions between Fisher Houses and other temporary lodging provided by VA. This final rule generally reflects current VA policy and practice, and conforms to industry standards and expectations.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23513 RIN 2900-AO26 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date. Effective Date: This final rule is effective May 7, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule amending its regulation that governs VA services that are not subject to copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care or outpatient medical care. Specifically, the regulation exempted in-home video telehealth care from having any required copayment. VA received no significant adverse comments concerning this rule or its companion substantially identical proposed rule published on the same date. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on May 7, 2012. In a companion document in this issue of the Federal Register , we are withdrawing as unnecessary the proposed rule.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23514 RIN 2900-AO27 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Withdrawal of proposed rule. The proposed rule is withdrawn as of September 25, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing VA's proposed rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on March 6, 2012, to amend its regulation that governs VA services that are not subject to copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care or outpatient medical care. Specifically, the regulation exempted in-home video telehealth care from having any required copayment. VA received no significant adverse comments concerning the proposed rule or its companion substantially identical direct final rule published on the same date in the Federal Register . In a companion document in this issue of the Federal Register , we are confirming that the direct final rule became effective on May 7, 2012. Accordingly, this document withdraws as unnecessary the proposed rule.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-21816 RIN 2900-AN95 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: September 5, 2012. 38 CFR Part 1 This document adopts as final, without change, the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2011. This final rule removes a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulatory restriction on the sharing of certain medical information with the Department of Defense (DoD) that is not required by the applicable statute and is inconsistent with the intent and purpose of that statute.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-21784 RIN 2900-AN51 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This rule is effective October 5, 2012. 38 CFR Part 17 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations concerning veterans in need of service dogs. Under this final rule, VA will provide to veterans with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments benefits to support the use of a service dog as part of the management of such impairments. The benefits include assistance with veterinary care, travel benefits associated with obtaining and training a dog, and the provision, maintenance, and replacement of hardware required for the dog to perform the tasks necessary to assist such veterans.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-19634 RIN 2900-AO32 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule. Comments must be received by VA on or before October 9, 2012. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its adjudication regulation concerning presumptive service connection for acute and sub-acute peripheral neuropathy associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents. This proposed amendment is necessary to implement a decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to clarify and expand the terminology regarding presumption of service connection for peripheral neuropathy associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-17434 RIN 2900-AO35 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Proposed rule. Comments must be received by VA on or before September 17, 2012. 38 CFR Part 64 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to establish a pilot program, known as the Rural Veterans Coordination Pilot (RVCP), to provide grants to eligible community-based organizations and local and State government entities to be used by these organizations and entities to assist veterans and their families who are transitioning from military service to civilian life in rural or underserved communities. VA would use information obtained through the pilot to evaluate the effectiveness of using community-based organizations and local and State government entities to improve the provision of services to transitioning veterans and their families. Five RVCP grants would be awarded for a 2-year period in discrete rural locations pursuant to a Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) to be published in the Federal Register .
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-17069 RIN 2900-AO33 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: July 13, 2012. 38 CFR Part 0 This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) regulations concerning the standards of ethical conduct and related responsibilities of its employees by adding a new subpart for VA's Core Values and Characteristics. These foundational values and organizational characteristics define VA employees and articulate what VA stands for, respectively, and they are a set of guidelines that will be applied Department-wide to all VA employees. This final rule establishes VA's Core Values and Characteristics, and ensures their proper application to the VA workforce.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-16810 RIN 2900-AO38 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective July 10, 2012. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule to amend its adjudication regulation regarding the additional statutory amount of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payable to a surviving spouse with one or more children below the age of 18. The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2006 redesignated the statutory section cited in VA's governing regulation. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulation to the statutory provision.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-16812 RIN 2900-AO22 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective July 10, 2012. Applicability Date: This final rule applies to an application for dependency and indemnity compensation that: • Is received by VA on or after October 1, 2011; • Was received by VA before October 1, 2011, but had not been decided by a VA regional office as of that date; • Is appealed to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) on or after October 1, 2011; • Was appealed to the Board before October 1, 2011, but had not been decided by the Board as of that date; or • Is pending before VA on or after October 1, 2011, because the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims vacated a Board decision on the application and remanded it for readjudication. 38 CFR Part 3 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulation regarding benefits for survivors of former prisoners of war who were rated totally disabled at the time of death. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulation to the authorizing statutory provision. The effect of this amendment is to liberalize the eligibility criteria for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) based on the death of a former prisoner of war whose service-connected disabilities had been continuously rated totally disabling for at least 1 year when he or she died.