The recent reply I just made here to someone brings up this interesting way a favorable EED prior to date of claim could possibly be awarded. We don't talk enough about the date the entitlement to a disability award "arose" This case is a good read of how this works. http://www4.va.gov/vetapp10/files1/1007467.txt This is the key part of this case regarding this concept: “Once service connection has been established or denied on the basis that the claimed disability was noncompen