The Board has granted an effective date of December 16, 2003 for apportionment of the Veteran's compensation benefits. The decision is based on the receipt of an informal claim by the Veteran within one year of a VA notice informing him of his appellate rights and apportionment for his dependents.
The deciding factor: The effective date was determined to be December 16, 2003 as it falls within the one-year period from the June 2003 letter notifying the Veteran of his rights regarding apportionment and coincides with an informal claim submitted by the Veteran in December 2003.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2014
- Citation
- 1409521
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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