writing that evinces an intent to seek benefits, the effective date of any benefits awarded must, in this case, be the date VA received her informal claim. This interpretation is without merit. Where only an informal claim has been submitted and the claimant has failed to complete and return a formal application that he or she received from the Secretary, the application for benefits is not in the form prescribed by the Secretary and is considered incomplete. See Fleshman, 9 Vet.App. at 551 (“The appellant’s unexecuted claim form was an informal claim and would not have been in the form prescribed by the Secretary until he returned it with the requested information.”) (citing Kluttz v. Brown, 7 Vet.App. 304, 306-07 (1994); 38 C.F.R. § 3.155(a)); see also Quarles, 3 Vet.App. at 137 (<HOLDING>). A claimant’s attempt to establish an original
holding that the submission of a new claim to a states highest court on discretionary review does not constitute a fair presentation of that claim for exhaustion purposes holding claim is not cognizable holding claim is cognizable holding that a negligence claim is not a personal injury tort claim holding by implication that where a claimant fails to return to the secretary a formal claim application within one year of the submission of his informal claim his informal claim is not a cognizable claim for effective date purposes