The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of erectile dysfunction is denied.,The criteria for an earlier effective date for special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ (SMC LOU) are not met.,The criteria for an effective date of September 22, 2018, but no earlier, for the grant of service connection for hypothyroidism are met.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not file a supplemental claim or request higher-level review within one year of the June 2019 rating decision denying service connection for erectile dysfunction.,VA law provides that entitlement to SMC is warranted if a veteran, as the result of a service-connected disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of one or more creative organs. The February and June 2019 rating decisions did not explicitly deny SMC LOU but implicitly denied it.,The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for hypothyroidism was denied in February and June 2019, and the matter was implicitly denied.
- Claimed conditions
- erectile dysfunction (ED), hypothyroidism, prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2023
- Citation
- A23034439
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