The Board granted the veteran's claim for an effective date of December 1, 2006 for DIC, death pension, and accrued benefits. The decision was based on the Claimant filing a belief that he was entitled to these benefits after the Veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The VA representative should have informed the Claimant of the criteria for entitlement to DIC, death pension, and/or accrued benefits upon his informal claim in December 2006.
- Claimed conditions
- DIC, death pension, accrued benefits
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19103718
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Decisions by this judge: 1,104 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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