The Board denied the appeal, finding that VA's action of disbursing benefit payments to the Veteran under supervised direct payment did not negate or nullify the final rating decision of September 1997 which found the Veteran incompetent.
The deciding factor: VA has the authority to make payments directly to a Veteran rated incompetent and can choose whether to do so. The determination is left to VA's discretion, and making such payments does not affect prior incompetency determinations.
- 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 4, 2010
- Citation
- 1000285
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What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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