The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of psychiatric disorders prior to December 22, 2021 is denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not demonstrate the Veteran filed a valid formal or informal claim for psychiatric conditions from the March 2019 final rating decision and prior to December 22, 2021.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric conditions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2024
- Citation
- A24068487
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 831 · Granted: 48% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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