---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.5103"
title: "38"
number: "21.5103"
heading: "Travel expenses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.5103"
---

# §21.5103. Travel expenses.

- (a) **General.** VA shall determine and pay the necessary expense of travel to and from the place of counseling for a veteran who is required to receive counseling as provided under 38 U.S.C. [111 (a)](/usc/38/111.md?p=a), [(d)](/usc/38/111.md?p=d), [(e)](/usc/38/111.md?p=e), and [(g)](/usc/38/111.md?p=g).
- (b) **Restriction.** VA will not pay the necessary cost of travel to and from the place of counseling when counseling is not required, but is provided as a result of a voluntary request by the veteran.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 29030, June 7, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), chs. 32, 36, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 31, Jan. 2, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 29030, June 7, 1996]