Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of February 28, 2022, for the grant of service connection for sleeping issues to include insomnia but denied earlier effective dates for both conditions.
The deciding factor: The failure to fulfill the duty to assist does not constitute error that mandates revision of the effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis and disc disease of the thoracolumbar spine, Sleeping issues to include insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25015341
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