# Changes in Rates VA Pays for Special Modes of Transportation; Delay of Effective Date
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule; delay of effective date. · Published 2023-12-29 · Effective 2025-02-16 · 88 FR 90120
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-28726
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 90120
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 70
- **Publication date:** 2023-12-29
- **Effective date:** 2025-02-16
## Abstract

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. This rulemaking delays that effective date to February 16, 2025.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/29/2023-28726/changes-in-rates-va-pays-for-special-modes-of-transportation-delay-of-effective-date)
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