The Veteran's son, who was attending college before turning 18 years old and under the age of 23, is entitled to additional compensation for a dependent child based on school attendance. The effective date is set at January 1, 2007.
The deciding factor: The claim for school attendance was received within one year of when the son began attending college after turning 18 years old.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1014808
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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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