The Board denied the appellant's request for an earlier effective date of June 12, 2014 for the award of DIC benefits under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 due to her failure to file a claim based on service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant's March 2010 application was not for DIC under section 1151, and thus did not establish an effective date earlier than June 12, 2014.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiac arrest, heart failure, kidney failure, deconditioning, knee joint infection
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2020
- Citation
- 20003813
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