The Board has granted service connection and a rating for major depression with psychoses and personality changes, post meningitis, encephalitis, and head trauma. The effective date of this grant is March 21, 2000. However, the veteran's claim for TDIU remains pending as there was no information or evidence that could be construed as a claim for TDIU prior to March 21, 2000.
The deciding factor: The effective date of service connection is set at the date of receipt of the petition to reopen the previously denied claim (March 2000), which was not earlier than that date.
- Claimed conditions
- major depression with psychoses and personality changes, post meningitis, encephalitis and head trauma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- December 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0638898
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Decisions by this judge: 1,458 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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