Court Opinion

ID: 9502212
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 18:48:38.335575+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:38.741352
License: Public Domain

STEINBERG, Judge,
concurring:
I write separately to stress that to the extent that the Board of Veterans’ Appeals’ Board denial of the appellant’s child’s claim for apportionment may have been intended as a broad determination that there is no basis in law for the Department of Veterans Affairs ever to make retroactive payment pursuant to a claim for apportionment, the Court’s action today does not address that broad question; rather, we affirm the Board’s decision that on the facts of this case “there is no basis for making a retroactive payment.” R. at 10; cf. 38 C.F.R. § 3.400(e) (1999) (effective date of “[ojriginal” claim for “[apportionment” shall be set “in accordance with the facts found”).