The Veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected condition, and the Appellant's income exceeds the maximum annual pension rate. Therefore, service connection for the cause of death is denied, and nonservice-connected death pension is also denied.
The deciding factor: Service connection could not be established as there was no evidence linking the Veteran's death to his in-service injuries or any other condition related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- arrhythmia, hyperkalemia, renal failure, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2017
- Citation
- 1758982
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