The Board has determined that the appellant is entitled to retroactive payment of Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits under Chapter 35, Title 38 U.S.C. based on her eligibility date and timely application.
The deciding factor: The new law provides for retroactive payments if an individual's application was submitted within a year of the initial rating decision and they would have been entitled to such assistance if the application had been submitted on their eligibility date.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0302501
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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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