The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for TBI, tension headaches associated with TBI, and a lung condition.
The deciding factor: VA received on March 29, 2023, the Veteran's Supplemental Claim seeking to have his claim for service connection for a TBI, headaches, and a lung condition to be readjudicated. As the RO has already assigned the effective date of March 29, 2023, the earliest possible effective date after a prior final denial in 2015 is not possible.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic brain injury (TBI), tension headaches, lung condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093469
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