The Board has granted an effective date of September 16, 2010 for the grant of service connection for disfiguring scars on posterior scalp from removal of a sebaceous cyst. The Veteran's claim was based on his initial surgery in September 2010.
The deciding factor: The effective date is fixed by the facts found and cannot be earlier than the date entitlement arose, which is September 16, 2010 when the scars were first noted as painful following the sebaceous cyst excision.
- Claimed conditions
- disfiguring scars on posterior scalp
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2019
- Citation
- A19002140
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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