The veteran's claim for an effective date prior to January 12, 2000 for a 60 percent rating for service-connected lumbosacral strain with degenerative joint disease was granted.,The veteran's claim for an effective date prior to January 12, 2000 for a 10 percent rating for coccydynia was also granted.
The deciding factor: Effective dates were assigned based on the earliest record of entitlement as evidenced by the veteran's statements and VA records.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative joint disease, coccydynia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- September 24, 2008
- Citation
- 0832817
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Partly granted
The Veteran's claims for an earlier effective date for TDIU and DEA, as well as the claim for a higher rating for his low back disability, were denied. However, the Board granted an effective date of December 30, 2009, but no earlier, for both TDIU and DEA.
- Dismissed
All appeals for higher initial ratings and service connection were dismissed as they were duplicative of previously addressed appeals or due to untimely filings.
- Dismissed
All appeals for higher ratings, decreased ratings, and service connection claims have been dismissed as the Veteran has already appealed these issues to the Board.
- Dismissed
All appeals for ratings in excess of the current ratings or service connection were dismissed due to impermissible concurrent elections.
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