The Veteran's room and board expenses at a residential care facility are not considered deductible medical expenses for pension purposes, thus denying his claim for nonservice-connected pension benefits.
The deciding factor: VA regulations do not consider payments for room and board in facilities other than nursing homes as deductible medical expenses for the purpose of calculating pension benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2019
- Citation
- A19003522
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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