The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for adding his dependent spouse and step-child was denied as the evidence of their marriage was not submitted within one year of the marriage, but it was received within a year of the qualifying disability effective date. The effective date is set at March 6, 2017.
The deciding factor: The effective date cannot be earlier than the qualifying disability effective date due to the timing of the submission of evidence of dependency status.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2022
- Citation
- 22037300
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