The Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for the grants of service connection for instability of the left and right knees are denied as there is no legal basis for assignment of any earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: The earliest effective date that may be assigned for the grant of these benefits is January 21, 2005, which was the date of receipt of the claim to reopen the previously denied claim for service connection for leg and knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- instability of the left knee, instability of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2009
- Citation
- 0929949
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