The Board granted eligibility for direct payment of attorney fees from past due benefits awarded in a January 2023 rating decision. The Veteran's service-connected disabilities were granted increased ratings, making the issue of entitlement to a TDIU moot.
The deciding factor: The appellant is eligible for fees arising from the January 2022 claim because it sought the same or similar benefit on the same or similar basis as that denied in the July 2021 rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, right elbow disability, bilateral upper extremity radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25004953
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,836 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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