The Board has determined that the appellant is not entitled to accrued benefits in an amount higher than $11,988.00 due to the Veteran's death and her inability to manage VA benefits.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died with a claim pending for nonservice-connected pension (NSP) and special monthly compensation (SMC), but no payments were made at the time of her death as she was deemed incompetent to manage her VA benefits. The appellant, who is not a child, does not meet the eligibility criteria for accrued benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Parkinson's disease dementia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 1, 2018
- Citation
- 1827052
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