The Veteran's effective date for additional compensation benefits for his dependent spouse is granted to August 1, 2006.
The deciding factor: The Veteran submitted a VA Form 686c in May 2007 within one year of the notification of his service-connected disability rating and request for dependent status information.
- Claimed conditions
- Right pneumothorax
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 15, 2014
- Citation
- 1416706
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of left and right pneumothorax, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between these conditions and his military service. The claim for a compensable rating for residuals of right pneumothorax was also denied due to conflicting medical opinions.
- Denied
The Board denied all claims for increased ratings as the Veteran's conditions have resolved or are not service-connected.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding no nexus between his fatal metastatic cancer or pneumonia and any incident of active service.
- Granted
The VA has granted a 30 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected residuals of right pneumothorax, based on recent pulmonary function test results showing an FEV-1 of 70-percent predicted.
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