The Board has granted the Veteran's request to include memory loss as a residual of service-connected encephalitis in the June 1973 rating decision. However, an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for cognitive disorder and major depression is denied.
The deciding factor: The record shows that the Veteran had some memory impairment as a residual of the service-incurred encephalitis, but the RO failed to include this in the June 1973 rating decision due to CUE. The appeal for an earlier effective date for cognitive disorder and major depression is denied because no formal or informal claim was received prior to May 2005.
- Claimed conditions
- Memory loss, Cognitive disorder not otherwise specified, Major depression
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- July 28, 2020
- Citation
- 20050133
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- Dismissed
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