---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7112"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7112"
heading: "Expedited treatment of certain claims"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7112"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 71 — Board of Veterans’ Appeals"
---

# §7112. Expedited treatment of certain claims

- (a) **Remanded Claims.—** The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall take such actions as may be necessary to provide for the expeditious treatment by the Board of any claim that is remanded to the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) by the Court of Appeals for [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Claims.
- (b) **Claims Involving Military Sexual Trauma.—** The Board shall promptly determine whether a notice of disagreement filed with the Board is a covered case.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “covered case” means a case—
    - (A) that concerns a claim for [compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=13) based on military sexual trauma; and
    - (B) for which the appellant has requested a hearing in the notice of disagreement filed with the Board pursuant to [section 7105 of this title](/usc/38/7105.md).
  - (2) The term “military sexual trauma” has the meaning given that term in [section 1166 of this title](/usc/38/1166.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–183, title VII, § 707(b)(1), Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2673; amended Pub. L. 117–300, § 2(a)(1), (2)(A), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4379, 4380.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–300 substituted “certain” for “remanded” in section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and inserted heading, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).