Veterans Health Care Regulations

6 A client who receives treatment benefits referred to in paragraph 4(a) or (b) under section 3, and a client referred to in subsection 3(2.1) or (2.11), paragraphs 3(2.2)(b) or (2.21)(b) or any of subsections 3(4) to (10) who receives those benefits as an insured service under a provincial health care system, are eligible to receive supplementary benefits as follows :

• (a) the costs of travel incurred by the client who travels to receive those treatment benefits;

• (b) where the client’s health needs are such that the client needs to be accompanied by an escort on travel referred to in paragraph (a), the costs of travel incurred by that escort; and

• (c) the remuneration of an escort referred to in paragraph (b), where that escort is not the spouse or common-law partner or a dependant of the client or any other member of the client’s household.

• (d) [Repealed, SOR/95-440, s. 2]