The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for special monthly compensation based on the loss of use of his right hand and both lower extremities due to service-connected disability was granted. The effective date is set at July 17, 1998.
The deciding factor: The RO granted service connection for a bilateral leg disability secondary to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability and granted secondary service connection for right arm loss of use secondary to stroke when it granted entitlement to special monthly compensation. The effective date was set at July 17, 1998.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral leg disability, right arm loss of use
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 2, 2001
- Citation
- 0103275
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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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