The Board has granted payment of past-due benefits to the appellant as the Veteran's child and substitute claimant based on the October 2020 rating decision that granted service connection for scleroderma and assigned an initial disability rating of 100 percent, effective November 20, 2012.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant was properly recognized as a substitute claimant to continue the Veteran's pending claim for service connection for scleroderma to completion, and should have been paid the accrued benefits based on the award of service connection for scleroderma in the October 2020 rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- scleroderma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 25, 2026
- Citation
- A26016921
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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