The Board denied the veteran's claim, finding that his delimiting date for receiving educational assistance benefits under Chapter 30 should not be adjusted by the number of days he did not serve on active duty between January 1, 1977 and June 30, 1985. The Board found that the law required such an adjustment but the veteran was not informed.
The deciding factor: The governing legal criteria require a reduction in the delimiting date for Chapter 30 educational assistance benefits by an amount of time equal to the amount of time that the veteran was not serving on active duty during the period beginning on January 1, 1977 and ending June 30, 1985.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 23, 2005
- Citation
- 0526194
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