The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of a TDIU is dismissed as a freestanding claim.
The deciding factor: The claim constitutes a freestanding claim for an earlier effective date that must be dismissed as a matter of law due to procedural issues and finality of previous rating decisions.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, irritable bowel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19116894
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 880 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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