The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a 50 percent disability rating and TDIU is granted, as these benefits were warranted based on his service-connected right frontotemporal craniotomy with intractable headaches and reactive depression.
The deciding factor: The increase in disability was first factually ascertainable at the April 1998 VA examination, which occurred more than one year prior to the June 1997 claim for an increased evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative residuals of a right frontotemporal craniotomy, Intractable headaches, Reactive depression, Memory loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0616327
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