The Board denied the appellant's request for an effective date later than October 1, 2007, for the discontinuance of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payments because the death of the Veteran's surviving spouse occurred on October [redacted], 2007. The effective date is set as the last day of the month before her death.
The deciding factor: The law requires that an effective date for discontinuance of DIC benefits be the 'last day of the month before such . . . death occurs,' and in this case, the appellant's mother died on October [redacted], 2007. Therefore, the effective date is set as September 30, 2007.
- 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 5, 2012
- Citation
- 1212506
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