The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of recurrent major depressive disorder with anxiety features is denied as the earliest date of entitlement precedes the date of the reopened claim.
The deciding factor: The effective date based on a grant of service connection cannot be earlier than the date of receipt of the application to reopen, or the date entitlement arose, whichever is later. In this case, the date of entitlement clearly precedes the date of the reopened claim.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent major depressive disorder with anxiety features, inactive tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2015
- Citation
- 1543682
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection and increased rating was dismissed because the NOD did not identify a specific decision with which he disagreed.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected inactive tuberculosis with old granulomatous disease is denied as there are no residuals of the condition that would warrant a compensable rating.
- Denied
The Veteran's recurrent major depressive disorder with anxiety features is currently rated at 70 percent, but the Board has determined that a higher rating is not warranted. The Veteran also contends for individual unemployability benefits due to his service-connected disability, but the Board found insufficient evidence to grant these benefits.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's application to reopen his service-connection claim for tuberculosis, finding that new and material evidence did not show the presence of a current disability.
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