The Board remands the claims for payment or reimbursement of beneficiary travel expenses related to episodes of care on March 24, 2025, and March 26, 2025, due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as the AOJ failed to fully inform or provide the Veteran with the details of the evidence relied on to determine that services were available at a closer facility, and did not properly notify the Veteran of any information or evidence necessary to satisfy his claims for beneficiary travel expenses.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25090481
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