Other conditions decisions — 2007

The Board found no evidence of a current ear disability and denied the claim for service connection.

The Board has determined that an effective date earlier than August 18, 2000 for the grant of service connection for chronic prostatitis is denied. The RO's decision was properly awarded as of the date of receipt of the reopened claim.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of compensation benefits in the amount of $778.00, finding that recovery would not be against equity and good conscience.

The Board finds that the preponderance of evidence does not support a finding that the veteran's atrial fibrillation is related to service or any service-connected disability, and thus service connection for this condition cannot be granted.

The Board has determined that the preponderance of the evidence is against a higher rating for mechanical back strain, as it does not meet the criteria for a rating in excess of 10 percent since August 12, 2000.

The Board denied service connection for an ear disability manifested by earaches and wax build-up, but granted a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and assigned an effective date of April 30, 2001 for the grant of service connection for tinnitus.

The Board denied the appellant's request to reopen her claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that new and material evidence had not been received.

The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for the veteran's pathology of the macula of the left eye, effective from the date of this decision.

The veteran's appeal from the May 24, 2002 rating decision was timely filed.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded due to procedural issues and the need for additional evidence, including information about treatment since discharge from service.

The Board has determined that the appellant's discharge from active military service was issued under dishonorable conditions due to an offense involving moral turpitude, and thus acts as a bar to the receipt of VA benefits.

The Board has determined that the claim to reopen a lung disorder service connection is remanded due to procedural errors in the initial denial and lack of proper VCAA notice.

The Board has determined that the veteran's defective vision of the left eye, secondary to optic nerve injury, does not warrant a compensable evaluation as it is attributed to non-service-connected conditions and there are no current residuals of his service-connected optic nerve injury.

The Board found that the effective date for the grant of TDIU should be April 30, 2003, as there was no evidence showing entitlement to earlier effective dates prior to this date.

The Board has determined that the award of improved death pension benefits from July 29, 2004 to January 1, 2005 in the amount of $451.00 per month was correctly computed.

The Board has determined that the veteran's service connection for the residuals of an atrial septal defect should be granted, as it is a direct result of her active duty service.

The Board has determined that there is no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's current arthritis of the back to service or a service-connected disability, and thus denied his claim for service connection.

The Board found that the veteran's stomach disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by active service.

The veteran's claims for reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses are denied as the VA or Federal facilities were not feasibly available and an attempt to use them beforehand would have been reasonable.

The Board has determined that the veteran's current low back disability is causally related to an injury suffered during active duty service, and thus grants service connection for residuals of a back injury.