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Client Win: CAVC No. 20-5053, Armstead v. McDonough (BVA must provide fair process in Dependency Indemnity Compensation appeal))
This case involves a survivor’s claim for entitlement to Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). The appellant’s late-husband served in the US Air Force from 1964 – 1984, and passed away from a rare form of non-Hodgkins lymphom…
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Client Win: CAVC No. 17-2891, Halsey v. Shulkin (Survivors Accrued Benefits)
Attorney Chris Attig has been working with this veteran’s survivor for half a decade to get her DIC and survivor’s accrued benefits properly awarded. The veteran was a 3 decade military veteran, who fought not only in Thailand during the…
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Client Win: CAVC No. 15-1494, Murphy v. McDonald (BVA fails to consider Survivor's Claim of Substitution)
This case involves a survivor’s claim of substitution into a veteran’s pending claims and appeals when the veteran passes away. At the time the BVA Veterans Law Judge issued the decision, the law required that a VA Form 21-534 for Survivo…
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