"This is an informal claim for bi-polar disorder or major depression steming from my left ankle service-connected arthritis, pain, unemployablity, left knee and right hip pain and arthritis."
04/10/07
Granted service-connection for depression @ 70%.
08/18/08
Granted TDIU, retro to 04/10/07, the date of grant of service connection for depression. Paid retro back to 04/10/07.
My question(s):
Shouldn't the retro pay for TDIU be back to 08/25/06, the date that I FILED for Major Depression, and not the date that I was GRANTED service-connection for MDD?
And, shouldn't my TDIU be dated the same.......meaning the Chap 35 benefits should be "back-dated" to 08/25/06?
"It is cold and we have no blankets.
The little children are freezing to death.
My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.
I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.
Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.
From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
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LarryJ
Timeline:
08/25/06
"This is an informal claim for bi-polar disorder or major depression steming from my left ankle service-connected arthritis, pain, unemployablity, left knee and right hip pain and arthritis."
04/10/07
Granted service-connection for depression @ 70%.
08/18/08
Granted TDIU, retro to 04/10/07, the date of grant of service connection for depression. Paid retro back to 04/10/07.
My question(s):
Shouldn't the retro pay for TDIU be back to 08/25/06, the date that I FILED for Major Depression, and not the date that I was GRANTED service-connection for MDD?
And, shouldn't my TDIU be dated the same.......meaning the Chap 35 benefits should be "back-dated" to 08/25/06?
"It is cold and we have no blankets.
The little children are freezing to death.
My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.
I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.
Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.
From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
Chief Joseph
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