The Veteran seeks an earlier effective date for the award of additional compensation for his spouse, but the Board finds that he did not respond to a request for dependency information within one year of notification and thus the earliest possible effective date is July 1, 2006.
The deciding factor: VA regulations require the Veteran to provide updated information regarding dependents when asked. The Veteran's response was not received within one year of the request, leading to the abandonment of his claim for additional benefits for a dependent.
- Claimed conditions
- Dependent spouse
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2012
- Citation
- 1204243
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