The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation (SMC) at the statutory housebound rate effective July 12, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has a service-connected disability rated as total and additional service-connected disabilities which combine to at least 60 percent disabling, meeting the criteria for SMC under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s).
- 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 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25036935
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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