The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, accrued benefits, and eligibility for non-service-connected death pension. The claim to establish permanent incapacity for self-support was remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims for service connection or accrued benefits, and the Veteran's recognized guerilla and regular Philippine Army service did not confer eligibility for VA non-service-connected death pension.
- Claimed conditions
- bleeding peptic ulcer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2009
- Citation
- 0930012
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- Denied
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- Denied
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