The Veteran's adult daughter is granted additional accrued benefits for six weeks of caregiver expenses related to the Veteran's last sickness, but Life Alert services are denied.
The deciding factor: The appellant provided proof that she paid for the Veteran's caregiver expenses during his last sickness, while no actual proof was provided for the Life Alert services.
- Claimed conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Renal Failure
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19106408
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.
What you can do next
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