The Board denied the veteran's request for an effective date prior to April 24, 1996 for the grant of service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder. The veteran argued that the April 1968 Service Incident Report should have established a retroactive effective date based on new evidence from the service department, but the Board found this argument unpersuasive as the records did not meet the criteria specified in VA regulations.
The deciding factor: The April 1968 Service Incident Report was not considered to be of the type contemplated by VA regulations for retroactive evaluation under 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c).
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2003
- Citation
- 0300869
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