The Board denied the appellant's request for an earlier effective date of July 23, 1996 for service connection for the cause of her husband's death due to metastatic lung cancer. The decision stated that the earliest possible date of entitlement was in 1994 based on presumptive service connection for respiratory cancers.
The deciding factor: The Board found no basis for an effective date earlier than July 23, 1996 for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to the appellant not initiating a timely appeal and VA not reviewing the claim within one year after the applicable changes to the law.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2002
- Citation
- 0201293
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What this means for you
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