The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of special monthly compensation (SMC) based on the loss of a creative organ, finding that May 21, 2001 is the appropriate effective date as there was no prior pending claim and the Veteran did not file one before this date.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date was denied because he did not file a claim for service connection of impotence associated with his service-connected left hemipelvectomy for giant sarcoma prior to May 21, 2001. The exception found at 38 U.S.C.A. § 5110(b) is not applicable as the Veteran's separation from service was in 1968 and he did not file a claim within one year of his discharge.
- Claimed conditions
- impotence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 26, 2016
- Citation
- 1621269
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