The Veteran's non-service-connected disability pension benefits were adjusted to reflect his unemployment income, which was incorrectly counted for 13 months instead of the required 12. The Board found that June 2013 should have been a full pension month and awarded $1,360.
The deciding factor: The RO applied the Veteran's unemployment income out until from May 18, 2012 to June 30, 2013 instead of for 12 months as required by law.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19137231
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Decisions by this judge: 1,812 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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