Barbara Haines, Claimant-Appellant v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs

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• holding that the provision regarding clear and unmistakable error in section 5109A \cannot be read as providing a procedure for adjudication or payment of veterans benefits to survivors. The only statutory basis providing such a remedy is section 5121.\
• upholding this Court’s ruling that a deceased veteran’s surviving spouse did not have standing to appeal the Board’s denial of her husband’s request for revision of a final VA benefits decision based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE)
• “The accrued benefits provision thus creates a narrowly limited exception to the general rule that a veteran’s claim for benefits does not survive the veteran.”
• \The accrued benefits provision thus creates a narrowly limited exception to the general rule that a veteran's claim for benefits does not survive the veteran.\
• \The accrued benefits provision thus creates a narrowly limited exception to the general rule that a veteran's claim for benefits does not survive the veteran.\
• discussing CUE claims under 38 U.S.C. § 5109A

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