The Board found that the appellant's application for burial benefits did not constitute an informal claim for DIC, and thus could not be used to establish an earlier effective date for DIC. The decision denied the request for an earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: VA General Counsel precedent holds that an application for VA burial benefits is not as a matter of law a claim for DIC in the way that a claim for DIC is a claim for other related benefits, and thus could not be used to establish an earlier effective date for DIC.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2002
- Citation
- 0200451
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