The veteran is entitled to educational assistance benefits under Chapter 1606 as of December 14, 1998. The effective date for payment is one year prior to the receipt of his application.
The deciding factor: The revised regulations provide that the date of payment is the latest of one year before the date of receipt of claim or date the educational institution certified. In this case, the receipt date of the claim (December 14, 1999) governs and determines the effective date as December 14, 1998.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 25, 2001
- Citation
- 0114764
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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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