The Board denied the veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for awards of service connection for retroperitoneal fibrosis, chronic renal failure, and left orchiectomy.
The deciding factor: There was no informal claim, formal claim, or written intent to file a claim for compensation benefits for chronic renal failure and left orchiectomy prior to June 18, 2004, and no document or evidence of record prior to that date can be read sympathetically as raising a possibility of his entitlement to those benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- retroperitoneal fibrosis, chronic renal failure, left orchiectomy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2008
- Citation
- 0814015
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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