The Board granted an earlier effective date of July 31, 2014, for the award of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) benefits.
The deciding factor: The Appellant's initial communication in which she was seeking service-connected death benefits was construed as an informal claim for DIC benefits, and the RO recognized this issue in its January 2015 correspondence.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 4, 2022
- Citation
- 22000259
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.
What you can do next
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