Granted
The veteran's attorney is eligible for direct payment of fees based on past due benefits awarded from a March 2023 decision that granted service connection for diabetes and bilateral lower extremity diabetic neuropathy.
The deciding factor: The March 2023 rating decision created a retroactive monetary award of past-due benefits that could be subject to fees.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, bilateral lower extremity neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25003005
Want to see how appeals like this one tend to go? Appeals like mine
We are not the VA. Veterans’ Rights is an independent resource built for veterans. We are not the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, not part of the government, and not endorsed by any government agency.
This is general information, not legal advice. For advice about your own situation, talk to a VA-accredited representative — many help for free.