Granted
The Board granted an effective date of May 1, 2008, for the award of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC), subject to controlling regulations governing the payment of monetary awards.
The deciding factor: The evidence is approximately evenly balanced as to whether the appellant filed a claim for SSA survivor benefits in May 2008. Resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the appellant, it was found that her application for SSA survivor benefits sufficed to establish the effective date for DIC.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25105541
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