The Board has determined that the appellant timely perfected an appeal of the November 1998 rating action denying service connection for the cause of the veteran's death. The decision is granted.
The deciding factor: The appellant's claim was timely filed after a statement of the case was sent to her old address, and she submitted a VA Form 646 in April 2001 as a substantive appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- Nicotine dependence, Heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 18, 2002
- Citation
- 0212424
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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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