The Board has granted an effective date of December 1, 2011 for the award of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death. This decision is based on the fact that the claim for service connection for hypertension was pending and inextricably intertwined with the issue of service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death was inextricably intertwined with the pending claim for service connection for hypertension, leading to a full grant of the benefit claimed.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive heart disease, renal failure due to hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 3, 2024
- Citation
- A24080081
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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.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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