The Board has awarded an effective date of January 1, 2003 for the award of additional disability compensation benefits for the veteran's spouse and son. The older sons (AM and MB) are recognized as dependents but no specific effective date is provided due to their age.
The deciding factor: The claim was received in December 2002, which was over a year after the effective date of the liberalizing legislation (October 1, 1978), thus an earlier effective date could not be granted. The effective date for dependency compensation is set to January 1, 2003.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- April 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0611960
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What this means for you
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