Granted
The appellant is entitled to recovery of accrued benefits awarded for a TDIU between November 4, 1985 and February 6, 2000.
The deciding factor: The statutory language of 38 U.S.C.A. § 5121(a) only limits a survivor's recovery of accrued veteran's benefits to a maximum two-year period of benefits accrued at any time during the veteran's life.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2008
- Citation
- 0810290
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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