Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 6.12.1994

Dependents' Educational Assistance; Certification

This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) in cases where it has been established that a veteran has a permanent and total service-connected disability. This action conforms the regulations to a decision of the Court of Veterans Appeals which held that entitlement to DEA may be established in such cases where the disabilities are of paired organs or extremities that are treated as service-connected under 38 U.S.C. 1160. Section 1160 provides that the combination of service-connected disability of one organ or extremity and nonservice-connected disability of the respective paired organ or extremity is treated as if the combination of disabilities is the result of service-connected disability.