The Board increased the veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability to a 70 percent rating effective October 14, 1992 and granted entitlement to TDIU effective August 1, 1999. The attorney fee stipulated in the August 6, 2003 agreement is reasonable.
The deciding factor: The total fee (excluding expenses) does not exceed 20 percent of the total amount of past-due benefits awarded and was contingent on whether or not the claim was resolved in a manner favorable to the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0634263
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What this means for you
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