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Constantine L. George was a service-connected disabled veteran rated at 100 percent at the time of his death on May 25, 2007. When his widow, Frances, filed for survivor's benefits with the VA, she was denied.
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Frances George had never thought she would have to battle the VA for her benefits, but for more than a year after her husband's death, she continued on her own to try to secure dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) from the VA without success. Then a DAV Department of California Service Officer directed her to the National Service Office in Los Angeles, and she got the help she needed.
It wasn't long before Frances started feeling she had made the
right decision. She received a call from NSO Paul R. Varela, the Supervisor of the Los Angeles office, and things started looking optimistic.
"Paul (NSO Varela) was very compassionate and seemed to have my interest at heart," Frances said. "He understood what I was going through and picked up the gauntlet and ran with it."
Constantine...
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