The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for chronic adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, as no evidence supported a date prior to February 29, 2008.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the lack of any communications or claims seeking service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability prior to February 29, 2008, and the fact that VA received the Veteran's informal claim on this date.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2024
- Citation
- A24067869
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Decisions by this judge: 882 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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