The Board granted earlier effective dates of December 1, 2018, for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA).
The deciding factor: The TDIU claim arose from the AOJ's September 2018 rating reduction of service-connected prostate cancer and the Veteran's notice of disagreement to that reduction, establishing the effective date as December 1, 2018. The DEA benefits were granted based on the same effective date due to permanent total disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25033605
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.
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