The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use of a creative organ, as there is no legal basis to assign an earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: The effective date cannot be earlier than the date of the claim for service connection on a secondary basis, which in this case was August 10, 2022.
- Claimed conditions
- total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25098821
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 191 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, tension headaches with migraine components, and lumbosacral strain and spinal stenosis with degenerative disc disease, prevent her from securing or following substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted TDIU for the entire appeal period.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's effective date for a 50% disability rating for total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy is set to August 29, 2015.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has reopened the Veteran's service connection claim for polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, but has remanded the case due to the need for an addendum opinion regarding whether PCOS is a congenital or developmental defect.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate opinions and rationale in a previous VA examination regarding the Veteran's employability.
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