The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date of August 27, 2001, for the grant of service connection for anxiety with PTSD has been granted.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence since the RO's decision in June 2002 included service department records that confirmed the occurrence of the reported in-service stressors, which were the basis of the RO's denial. As a result, the effective date was set to August 27, 2001.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety with PTSD, lipoma (claimed as growths all over body), actinic keratosis, soft tissue sarcoma, residuals of shell fragment wounds of the back, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability, right hip disability, left hip disability, right elbow disability, left elbow disability, right knee disability, left knee disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1528702
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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.
What you can do next
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