Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of eligibility to the direct payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded in a March 2024 rating decision, which established permanent incapacity for self-support for E.W., due to an error in the fee decision that failed to inform the parties of the past-due benefits awarded.
The deciding factor: The remand is required to correct a pre-decisional error in the fee decision on appeal by preparing an audit and issuing a Summary of the Case regarding the issue of entitlement to fees based on past-due benefits awarded in the March 2024 rating decision.
- 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 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25108823
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