The Board determined that the burial expenses paid by the appellant for her husband's funeral should be excluded from her countable income, allowing her to receive improved death pension benefits.
The deciding factor: VAOPGCPREC 1-2000 (2000) established inconsistency between 38 C.F.R. § 3.272(h) and 38 U.S.C. § 1503, allowing burial expenses to be excluded from countable income.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2000
- Citation
- 0025231
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