The veteran is entitled to an effective date of June 1, 1996 for the award of benefits based on dependents.
The deciding factor: The RO found that the latest possible effective date was June 1, 1996, which is the first day of the month following the effective date of the award of a 30 percent rating.
- 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 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0616426
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What this means for you
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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