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chrisw
I first wanted to say thank you to everyone that is involved in keeping this forum going. It's a great wealth of information. I wish I new about it several years ago.
I've got a question about the effective date of a claim.
I filed a VA disability claim for migraine headaches back in November 2008 and received my results of service connected with 0% in July 2009 effective November 2008. I felt 0% was not commensurate and sent the VA a request for reconsideration in August of 2009 along with some new medical evidence. I recently received my results and they granted me 30% but they put the effective date of August of 2009. Is this correct? Since it was a request for reconsideration I thought my effective date would remain November 2008.
When I filed my request for reconsideration I also mentioned that I would be requesting an increase in compensation for another service connected disability. Do you think that since I mentioned this they lumped them together as a new claim?
One other thing I wanted to mention is some of the medical evidence I submitted with the request for reconsideration was after original effective date of July 2009. Would the new medical evidence have anything to do with the effective date? Can I only appeal the effective date?
Also, I'm going to appeal the percent disability on something else. Would it be best to group the appeals together?
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