The appellant is entitled to the entire amount of the 'benefits awarded but unpaid' to which the veteran would have been entitled retroactively to August 14, 1984.
The deciding factor: The DRO decision determined that the veteran was entitled to an earlier effective date for assignment of a 100 percent rating for depressive reaction, effective August 14, 1984, based on the receipt of uniformed service medical records received from Wilford Hall Medical Center.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2009
- Citation
- 0902698
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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