The Board denied the Veteran's claims for deductions of monthly payments to Greeley Place Senior Housing and Whispering Chase Independent Retirement Community as unreimbursed medical expenses, finding that neither facility provided any medical or nursing services. The Board also found that the Veteran's countable annual income prior to December 1, 2009, exceeded the maximum annual pension rate for disability pension benefits.,The decision did not address service connection theory, exposure basis, or whether the Veteran is a beneficiary of the PACT Act.
The deciding factor: Neither Greeley Place Senior Housing nor Whispering Chase Independent Retirement Community provided any medical or nursing services to the Veteran. Therefore, their monthly payments could not be deducted as unreimbursed medical expenses from his countable annual income for pension benefits purposes.
- 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 24, 2010
- Citation
- 1023600
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