The Board has determined that the issues of whether the appellant received the correct entitlement amount of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC), whether an effective date earlier than June 1, 2016 is warranted for the award of DIC, and whether accrued benefits are due the appellant need to be addressed in a Statement of the Case. The Board will return these issues along with the issue of entitlement to additional DIC.
The deciding factor: The issues raised by the appellant's May 2017 Notice of Disagreement (NOD) were not fully addressed in the July 2018 Statement of the Case, and there are claims for accrued benefits that need to be adjudicated.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19153364
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What this means for you
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