The Board has granted the appellant's claim for accrued benefits, which includes a retroactive increase in the veteran's compensation evaluation from 30 percent to 50 percent. The effective date is March 25, 2003.
The deciding factor: The Court ruled that the appellant was entitled to receive the full amount of benefits awarded but unpaid by the Board at the time of her husband's death.
- Claimed conditions
- comminuted fracture of the greater trochanter, scar of the left shoulder with metallic foreign body, malaria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- March 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0305647
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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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