denied benefits back to 1982 and again ruled that the
to give him the effective date of 1982 for the Award of
court didn't go so far as to reverse the board's decision in
intervention including the attorneys at the VA who took
a bad board decision again and so we assisted the veteran in
25 years for his bilateral blindness. So that is a really
the benefits. Importantly, the court held that the record so
veteran intended and believed that he was applying for
the claims file contains no evidence that the appellate was
pension for the blindness so obviously we felt that this was
the law correctly, and come up with a new decision. So, it
this case and we really wanted to see this outcome and we hope
order the VA to pay this veteran his benefits from May
to get pension. So, in order to avoid having to pay the veteran
defending the board's conclusion that that 1982
application did not disability compensation for the blindness
disability compensation from 1982 to 2008 the board ruled
vision disability. It concluded it only covered disability
nineteen eighty-two. Instead, the judge determined that the
benefits. So, CCK took that case up to the Veterans Court.
board had to look at the look at the evidence again, apply
supporting a conclusion that the veteran was seeking only
compensation for the already service connected hearing loss
his vision disability and remember that was the board's
and that he only wanted pension for the for the the blindness
hearing loss and now remember, it would have been more
entitlement to an earlier effective date for the award of
even though the compensation would've the disability
Court the the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
compensation for vision only for pension for vision so CCK
compensation for the vision disability and VA's attorneys
that the claim form was not actually a claim for
percent rating plus special monthly compensation but only
to the vision disability and it was only a claim for disability
beneficial to the veteran to be awarded service connected
disability as a disability for which he sought benefits. The
compensation as it related to the already service connected
took that case that board decision up to the Veterans
application, the VA application form where the veteran listed
benefits and filled out the portions of the application
later, in I think the the twenty tens or two in the 2
service connection for the blindness, gave him a hundred
recent CCK case that we're very proud of and in this case, we
in the 1980s about entitlement to VA compensation. So, decades
by VA at 100% disabling, but instead of granting the veteran
that it's only effective nineteen eighty-two. The board
is just based off of whether the veteran was disabled by
did get him monthly check but it was less than what he would
the vision disability as a condition for which he sought
based off a veteran's income whereas disability compensation
would pay him from two thousand and eight, not from 1982 when
is to be awarded disability pension. So, in this case, the
veteran filled out the claim form and filled out both parts
of the form asking about both pension and compensation. So,
his eye disease and he had been diagnosed at that point with
VA's claim form request benefits for both his already
disability compensation for the blindness. VA finally granted
the veteran to be awarded disability compensation than it
disability compensation for the bilateral for the for the legal
veteran appealed the regional office's decision to award him
service connected hearing loss and for his not yet service
forms about benefits for pension and disability
monthly check, they granted only pension which only which
had a veteran who served in the US Marine Corps from 68 to 70
as a field artillery canoneer including in Vietnam and so in
legal blindness and legal blindness at the time was rated
form for both pension and disability compensation. The
disability pension so often times it's more advantageous to
what VA did is it only awarded the veteran pension based on
Hey, everyone. Welcome to CCK Live. I'm Amy Amy Odom and in
this video, I'm going to be breaking down the details of a
connected eye disease but he filled out both parts of the