The Board denied the veteran's request for an effective date prior to August 19, 2022, for service connection of depression with anxious distress because the supplemental claim was not filed within one year of the prior denial and good cause for the delay was not shown.
The deciding factor: Good cause for the delay in filing the supplemental claim was not established.
- Claimed conditions
- depression with anxious distress
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25004515
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,948 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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