The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of dissociative amnesia with mild chronic symptoms of depression was denied as the earliest effective date is October 18, 2000.
The deciding factor: The effective date cannot be assigned prior to the date of receipt of the claim due to the one-year statute of limitations following separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- dissociative amnesia, mild chronic symptoms of depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 7, 2003
- Citation
- 0306636
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,776 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection due to insufficient evidence and need for further examination. The issues include psychiatric disorders, dissociative amnesia, low back condition, left leg condition, and right leg condition.
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