Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for a skin condition as it requires further medical opinion.

The Board granted an effective date of March 3, 2023, for the addition of the Veteran's spouse as his dependent to his VA compensation, with payment beginning on April 1, 2023.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability and eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The appeal for an increased rating for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was withdrawn by the Veteran and is therefore dismissed.

The Board remands the claims for recognition as a substituted claimant and accrued benefits due to a pre-decisional error in satisfying a regulatory duty.

The Board denied the claim for recognition as a surviving helpless child of the Veteran based on permanent incapacity for self-support prior to attaining the age of 18.

The Board remands the matter for additional evidentiary development, specifically to address the Veteran's request for reimbursement of the $5,626 collected pursuant to a compromise agreement.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for right hand arthritis, right thumb finger injury due to insufficient evidence regarding the severity of the disability.

The Board is remanding the claims for a new VA hip examination to address deficiencies in the previous examination findings.

The Board remands the case to schedule a new VA examination and obtain an opinion in compliance with previous remand directives.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to an initial compensable rating for service-connected right eye disability due to non-compliance with previous remand directives.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral eye disability, finding that the evidence does not support a causal relationship between the condition and his active service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for skin disability, to include as due to herbicide exposure, for additional development.

The appeal for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to exposure to ionizing radiation for purposes of receiving DIC is dismissed as moot.

The case is remanded for a medical examination to measure the Veteran's left shoulder active and passive range of motion, weightbearing and non-weightbearing ROM, and note where pain begins in degrees.

The appeal for additional payment of non-VA medical services provided on July 9, 2019, was dismissed because the billing company that filed the notice of disagreement is not a proper claimant.

The appeal concerning entitlement to payment of the cost of non-VA dental services provided on January 16, 2020, is dismissed as the issue has been resolved in full by administrative action.

The Board granted service connection for a right foot disorder, finding that the evidence supports a current disability and an in-service injury related to active duty.

The Board denied service connection for genital herpes, finding that the evidence does not support a link between the condition and the Veteran's military service.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal, and the claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for lumbosacral strain with lumbosacral spondylosis without myelopathy is dismissed.