The Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the award of SMC based on the loss of a creative organ was denied because his Notice of Disagreement (NOD) was untimely.
The deciding factor: The NOD was filed outside the one-year period required to file a notice of disagreement, and no waiver is available for this time limit.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent urethral stricture, loss of a creative organ
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 4, 2018
- Citation
- 18131694
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted effective dates of March 18, 2022 for the awards of service connection and ratings for various conditions including left upper extremity tremor, right upper extremity tremor, constipation, balance impairment, sexual dysfunction, and loss of a creative organ.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for recurrent urethra stricture was denied, and the claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for service-connected right knee patellofemoral pain syndrome is remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied requests for earlier effective dates for service connection and SMC based on loss of a creative organ, as these grants were assigned the earliest possible effective date following separation from active duty.
- Denied
The Veteran's loss of a creative organ is not due to a service-connected disability, so they are denied SMC-K.
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