The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma was granted with a 100% evaluation effective February 26, 2016. The Board denied an earlier effective date as the claim was not received until that date.
The deciding factor: The claim for service connection was not received prior to the assigned effective date of February 26, 2016.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19108929
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What this means for you
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