The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for an effective date earlier than September 13, 2010 for the grant of service connection for renal failure (claimed as kidney disease), as secondary to his service-connected hypertension. The earliest effective date is set at September 13, 2010.
The deciding factor: The claim was denied in October 2008 and reopened in September 2010 with the receipt of new and material evidence. The effective date cannot be earlier than the date entitlement to the benefit was shown or the date a petition to reopen the claim was received, which is September 13, 2010.
- Claimed conditions
- Renal Failure, Kidney Disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 24, 2015
- Citation
- 1549504
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