The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bilateral upper extremity essential tremors, as no claim was received prior to March 16, 2023.
The deciding factor: No communication or reasonable indication of a claim for service connection for bilateral upper extremity essential tremors was found before March 16, 2023, and the effective date is based on the date of receipt of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity essential tremors, left upper extremity essential tremors
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25044488
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's service connection claims for bilateral pes planus, right and left upper extremity essential tremors, and unspecified depressive disorder with mild anxious distress due to missing service treatment records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased initial evaluations of right and left upper extremity essential tremors due to an inadequate VA examination.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right upper extremity essential tremors as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The other claims were remanded for further development.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for the veteran's bilateral upper and lower extremity essential tremors, finding that the evidence did not support a link to active service.
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