The veteran's VA pension benefits were terminated due to his incarceration for a felony conviction, effective January 10, 2002.
The deciding factor: VA applied the law that no VA pension shall be paid to an individual who has been imprisoned in a penal institution as a result of conviction of a felony or misdemeanor for any part of the period beginning sixty-one days after such individual's imprisonment begins and ending when such individual's imprisonment ends.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0311059
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What this means for you
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