The Board denied the appellant's claim for an earlier effective date of May 21, 2007, for the grant of nonservice-connected and special monthly pension benefits, finding that there was no legal basis to assign such a date.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the Veteran's informal claim for pension benefits was not formalized within one year of its receipt in April 1999 due to lack of response from the Veteran. As a result, the claim was considered abandoned and no earlier effective date could be assigned.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2016
- Citation
- 1625621
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