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BMCS00
MEDDAC,
You seem to know what you are talking about, and I appreciate the time you spend on here explaining things to other veterans, I hope you can lend some insight for me. I have a question, but first the background;
I currently have a claim in for service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome (submitted June 2008). It was in my claim back in 2000, which was put in right before I retired. I know the rules now are that if a veteran has a diagnosis within a year of discharge, it can be service-connected.
I had complaints of problems with my fingers going numb while I was on active duty. Within 3 months of my retirement, I had a nerve conduction study done, and got the diagnosis then. I provided that to the VA, but was turned down nonetheless. I had another nerve conduction study done last year, and it came back as moderate on my right (dominant side), and mild on my left. I put in to have my claim for carpal tunnel syndrome reopened with the new evidence. It was enough 'new evidence' to reopen my claim.
Say they do make service-connection for bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, and award more than 0%, since they reopened my original claim, will the retro go back to 2000 when I originally put in for it, or last year when I requested my claim be reopened?
By the way, I do have a good DAV service officer, she is located at the Togus VA center, one floor down from the VSO's. She just called me a couple weeks ago and told me she was sending me a letter to sign for the VA to change my 'Request for Reconsideration' (which was for a different issue) to a NOD in order to preserve the effective date. If she had not done that, I imagine my year would have or could have come and gone and I might well have lost my effective date. Latest status, my claim is ready to be rated with a suspense date of June 8th. She explained that suspense date as merely a reminder in 60 days to the raters that my claim is still on their plate. I was concerned they were waiting another 60 days for something.
Thanks,
--Jim
Life is good! :)
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