The Board has granted the appellant's claim for an earlier effective date of May 13, 1997 for the grant of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death. The effective date is based on the date of receipt of her reopened claim in May 1997.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant's claim was initially denied in March 1982, but she did not appeal this decision. Her claim was subsequently reopened and granted service connection for the cause of the veteran's death on January 1999 with an effective date set at May 21, 1997, which is later than her initial receipt of the claim in May 13, 1997.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2004
- Citation
- 0428196
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