The veteran's March 16, 1990 correspondence is considered an informal claim for service connection for heart disease. The Board has granted this claim and assigned an effective date of March 16, 1990.
The deciding factor: The veteran's heart condition was linked to his service-connected conditions and experiences while a POW, warranting service connection from the date of receipt of his informal claim on March 16, 1990.
- Claimed conditions
- arteriosclerotic heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 25, 2002
- Citation
- 0208445
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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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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and higher ratings for his service-connected conditions, as well as a TDIU.
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