The Board found no legal basis for additional retroactive payment for death pension benefits, as the Appellant's earliest date of entitlement to death pension benefits is September 1, 2005. The decision denied her request for higher retroactive payments and additional dependent child support.
The deciding factor: The effective date of the award was determined based on the claim submitted by the Appellant in October 2005, which resulted in a monthly entitlement of $817.00 starting from September 1, 2005.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2013
- Citation
- 1303270
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