The Board granted an effective date of October 26, 2022, but no earlier, for the grant of service connection for parkinsonism.
The deciding factor: The effective date was based on the Veteran's intent to file a claim for compensation on October 26, 2022, and the filing of a supplemental claim in September 2023.
- Claimed conditions
- parkinsonism
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 10, 2024
- Citation
- A24064951
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
Service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death and service-connected burial benefits were granted due to the Veteran's parkinsonism, which was a service-connected disability.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 40 percent disability rating for the left and right lower extremity sciatic peripheral neuropathy from April 19, 2022, but denied increased ratings for all other conditions.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.
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