The Board has granted service connection for a skin disorder due to an undiagnosed illness and assigned a 20 percent rating for joint and muscle pain, headaches, and a sleep disturbance. The veteran's representative requested consideration of the issue of entitlement to an earlier effective date for a 30 percent rating for post-traumatic stress disorder, which is referred to the RO.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran presented competent evidence of a plausible claim of service connection for a skin disorder due to an undiagnosed illness and granted service connection based on new and material evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0009860
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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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