VA Notify

Appellant Notification

At a high level, the Appellant Notification Module is what we use to implement prepended methods that, when triggered, will send out a JSON payload to an external service called VA Notify which will in turn send out a notification to appellants based on their communication preferences (email, text, or both). At present, the Appellant Notification module tracks 9 different types of status changes within an appeal. If any of these status changes occur, the appellant will be notified. These statuses are:

• Appeal docketed
• Appeal decision mailed
• Hearing scheduled
• Withdrawal of hearing
• Postponement of hearing
• Privacy Act request pending
• Privacy Act request complete
• VSO IHP pending
• VSO IHP complete