The Board denied the appellant's request for an increased evaluation for his right leg disability and service connection for a stomach disorder. However, it granted him an effective date of September 19, 1987, for the grant of service connection for PTSD based on clear and unmistakable error in prior rating decisions issued in 1971. The Board also found that there was no legal basis to assign an earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: The RO's February 1971 and July 1971 rating decisions were not clearly and unmistakably erroneous as to the decision to deny service connection for a psychiatric disorder, and the appellant did not meet the criteria for an earlier effective date for his PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound to the right leg, nervous disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- November 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0030574
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