The Veteran's income is not a bar to payment of non-service-connected disability pension and special monthly pension (SMP) as it does not exceed the maximum annual pension rates for those years. The RO will consider additional medical expenses provided by the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The in-home health care expenses were found credible, allowing for deduction from the Veteran's countable income.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 14, 2009
- Citation
- 0934300
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