The veteran's appeal for an increased evaluation of prostate cancer with prostatitis was remanded. The issue of entitlement to an effective date prior to October 18, 1996 for the grant of service connection for post traumatic stress disorder is dismissed due to a final rating decision.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for PTSD was not supported by evidence of CUE in the original rating decision and thus cannot be granted as a free-standing claim.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer with prostatitis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2008
- Citation
- 0839019
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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