The Board denied the appellant's claim for an earlier effective date for accrued benefits, finding that she is only entitled to unpaid monetary benefit due her husband for a period not exceeding two years.
The deciding factor: The veteran had a pending claim for a higher rating for his service-connected condition. At the time of his death, he was entitled to a 10% increase in his disability rating, effective September 28, 1945. The appellant is only entitled to accrued benefits based on this existing rating.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound of the left calf
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 13, 2002
- Citation
- 0218053
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- Granted
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- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected residuals of a shell fragment wound to the left calf, including x-ray evidence of retained foreign bodies and chronic exertional compartment syndrome, are rated at 20 percent.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's residuals of a shell fragment wound of the left calf warrant an increased disability rating to 30 percent, effective from May 1995.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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