The Board has determined that there was clear and unmistakable error in the RO's January 2003 decision assigning an effective date of September 27, 2001 for the grant of service connection for organic personality disorder and organic mood disorder due to closed head injury. The effective date is now set at April 22, 1968.
The deciding factor: The RO made a clear error in applying the extant regulation pertaining to receipt of a supplemental report from the service department when assigning an earlier effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- organic personality disorder, organic mood disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 1, 2015
- Citation
- 1528411
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