The Board has determined that the appropriate issue for consideration is entitlement to an effective date earlier than October 16, 1992, for a grant of service connection for ankylosing spondylitis of the multiple joints.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted for ankylosing spondylitis on October 16, 1992, with assignment of a 60 percent evaluation effective from that date.
- Claimed conditions
- ankylosis spondylitis of multiple joints
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- February 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0003330
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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