The Board finds that the June 2003 retropayment of death pension benefits was proper, and thus denied the appellant's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability for accrued benefit purposes.
The deciding factor: The monthly rate of pension payable to a beneficiary is computed by reducing the beneficiary's applicable maximum pension rate by their countable income and dividing the remainder by twelve. The RO correctly determined that the appellant was entitled to $4,561 in pension benefits over the period of August 1, 2001 to August 1, 2002, which included a retropayment of $2,677.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 27, 2007
- Citation
- 0722966
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