The Board has granted an extension of the appellant's delimiting date for educational assistance benefits under Chapter 35, Title 38, United States Code.
The deciding factor: The appellant was required to suspend her program of education due to circumstances beyond her control (assisting in the personal care of her father), and she has not yet reached age 31, allowing an extension beyond her original delimiting 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
- March 3, 2004
- Citation
- 0405750
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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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