The Veteran's claim for service connection of diabetes mellitus type 2 was granted, and the effective date is set at July 24, 2012.
The deciding factor: The Veteran had been continuously treated for diabetes mellitus type 2 since its diagnosis in 1997, which predates the liberalizing law that allows retroactive service connection for such conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus type 2
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2018
- Citation
- 1800666
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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.
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