The Board granted an earlier effective date for DIC benefits and entitlement to accrued benefits for Hodgkin's disease, reversing the previous decisions.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence supported a grant of earlier effective dates and entitlement to accrued benefits based on the presumption in favor of Hodgkin's disease contained in the Agent Orange Act of 1991.
- Claimed conditions
- Hodgkin's disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0013229
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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