The Board granted service connection for right hip arthroplasty and assigned an effective date of February 1998. The claim for earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for a low back disorder was also granted, with the effective date set at September 27, 1999.
The deciding factor: The veteran submitted correspondence in September 1999 indicating an intent to file a claim for compensation regarding his low back disorder. The Board found this correspondence sufficient to establish a claim and assigned an earlier effective date based on the submission of such correspondence.
- Claimed conditions
- atrial fibrillation, chronic low back pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- March 20, 2003
- Citation
- 0305272
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