The Board denied the appellant's request for apportionment of her husband's nonservice-connected pension benefits, finding that she did not meet the criteria for dependency and that such apportionment would cause undue hardship to her estranged husband.
The deciding factor: The veteran's monthly pension award was small, making it difficult to provide a reasonable amount to the appellant without causing undue hardship to him.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent cardiac arrhythmias, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine, lumbosacral spine, right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 25, 2002
- Citation
- 0203791
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