The Veteran's claim for service connection for tinnitus was denied in May 1998, but he submitted a notice of disagreement and the effective date is set to April 14, 1998.
The deciding factor: The Veteran filed his initial claim for service connection for tinnitus on September 26, 1997. The VA denied this claim in May 1998 but issued a statement of the case without addressing the issue of an effective date. The Veteran submitted another claim in January 2011 and the RO granted service connection with an effective date set to April 14, 1998.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disability, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2015
- Citation
- 1522534
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