The Veteran requested her appeal be withdrawn with respect to the issues of earlier effective dates for dependency benefits for her children, spouse, and former spouse. The Board dismissed the appeal as a result.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew her appeal by requesting its dismissal in statements submitted to the VA.
- Claimed conditions
- Child dependency, Spouse dependency, Former spouse dependency
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 25, 2024
- Citation
- A24040945
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's child, E., was awarded dependency benefits effective June 7, 2019. The Board found that the Veteran intended to seek these benefits as of January 2020 and thus the earlier effective date is granted.
- Denied
The Veteran's child, K.W., was born in 2010. The Veteran submitted a VA Form 21-686c Declaration of Status of Dependents adding K.W. as a dependent child on July 18, 2018. The effective date for additional dependency benefits is denied.
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