The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, accrued benefits, and non-service-connected pension due to lack of qualifying service or legal eligibility.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not have a type of service that would qualify him for the benefit sought, and the appellant was ineligible for the claimed benefit as there is no legal basis for her claims.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic liver cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2005
- Citation
- 0500440
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What this means for you
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