The Veteran is not permanently and totally disabled due to a nonservice-connected disability that is not the result of his willful misconduct, and therefore does not meet the requirements for nonservice-connected pension benefits.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's incarceration was caused by acts involving conscious wrongdoing or known prohibited action (willful misconduct), which precludes him from receiving disability pension benefits due to a nonservice-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Pedophilia, Personality Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified with Compulsive Antisocial and Narcissistic Features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2013
- Citation
- 1323285
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