The appellant is granted an extension of her delimiting date for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits due to a physical disability preventing her from pursuing education from May 2003 to July 2007.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence established that the appellant's chosen program of education was medically infeasible due to a physical disability not resulting from willful misconduct, and she applied for an extension within one year after the delimiting period.
- Claimed conditions
- physical disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2014
- Citation
- 1403280
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