Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 5, 2006 for service connection for PTSD and a total disability rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities from the same date.
The deciding factor: The May 2025 Memorandum Decision found that new and material evidence was constructively received within one year of the November 2006 rating decision, allowing the June 5, 2006 benefits claim to remain open at the time of the March 2016 AOJ rating decision granting service connection for PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25014548
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