The Board has granted earlier effective dates of March 14, 1995 for the awards of service connection for Traumatic Brain Injury and Deviated Nasal Septum.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's May 1995 correspondence was considered an informal claim for service connection, raising potential claims for additional disabilities related to his in-service injury. The Board found that the effective date should be March 14, 1995 based on when he filed a claim for an eye disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Deviated Nasal Septum
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2024
- Citation
- 24033671
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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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