The Board has granted the Veteran's request for an effective date of May 1, 2006, for adding his spouse B.A.M. as a dependent and found that the overpayment of additional compensation benefits for the period from June 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006 is valid.
The deciding factor: The effective date was granted based on the Veteran's informal claim received in April 28, 2006. The overpayment of benefits was found valid due to the lack of a dependent spouse for the period from December 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2019
- Citation
- 19110395
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,776 · Granted: 24% (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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