The Board finds that the appellant's countable income is not a bar to VA death pension benefits as of June 1, 2006.
The deciding factor: The appellant's annualized income was $12,666 with annualized unreimbursed medical expenses of $2,382. After excluding the unreimbursed medical expenses from her countable income, her total income was $10,284, which did not exceed the maximum allowable by law for the receipt of death pension benefits as of June 1, 2006.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1022159
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