The Board denied an earlier effective date for the addition of the Veteran's child, L., to the Veteran's VA compensation award as a dependent.
The deciding factor: VA may only assign the date of a child's birth as the effective date for additional dependency compensation when the claim or notice is provided within a year of the birth. In this case, the first instance that VA received any claim or notice was on June 8, 2021.
- 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 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25054926
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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