The Board denied the appellant's claims for accrued benefits and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, as there were no pending claims or past-due benefits owed to the Veteran at the time of his death, and he was not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disabilities continuously rated totally disabling for a period of 10 years immediately preceding his death.
The deciding factor: The records from within one year of the November 2001 rating decision were not new and material to render that decision non-final, as they did not show a worsening of the Veteran's psychiatric symptoms. Additionally, there was no evidence of entitlement to accrued benefits or Dependency and Indemnity Compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1318.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25013664
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