Granted
The Board granted an effective date of November 9, 2009 for the award of service connection for traumatic brain injury (TBI), but no earlier.
The deciding factor: Given VA's failure to provide a formal claim, the Veteran's informal claim of entitlement to service connection for TBI remained pending from November 9, 2009, the date the informal claim was received by the RO.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25020918
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