The Veteran's appeal for service connection and increased evaluations was timely filed, and all issues decided in the June 7, 2012 rating decision are now under review.
The deciding factor: The correspondence received by VA on June 21, 2013 is presumed to have been post-marked on June 14, 2013, within one year of the notification letter regarding the June 7, 2012 rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), tinnitus, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, scar on the right knee residual to a gunshot wound
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18142489
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What this means for you
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