The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for his grant of additional dependency compensation is denied as there is no dispute over the relevant facts and the law does not allow for an earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the payment of benefits corresponds with the first day of the month following the date VA first received a written claim for additional dependency compensation, which occurred more than a year after the Veteran was awarded a qualifying disability rating in 2012. There being no dispute as to the relevant facts, the Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date as a matter of law.
- Claimed conditions
- Dependents' Compensation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 29, 2020
- Citation
- 20030050
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