The Board has granted an effective date of October 29, 2007 for the grant of service connection for PTSD with depressive disorder, not otherwise specified. The earliest possible effective date is October 29, 2007.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's original claim for service connection was received on October 29, 2007, and there is no evidence of a prior formal or informal claim for PTSD or any other psychiatric disability. The earliest possible effective date the Veteran may receive is therefore October 29, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with depressive disorder, not otherwise specified
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2018
- Citation
- 1825979
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Denied
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