The veteran's surviving spouse is denied accrued benefits as the veteran did not receive compensation for his service-connected disability prior to death.
The deciding factor: The veteran's compensation was terminated due to non-attempts to resume benefits and lack of notification of address changes.
- Claimed conditions
- manic depressive reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 1, 2008
- Citation
- 0821525
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