Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Board remands the matter of entitlement to service connection for cause of death due to a need for additional evidence, specifically an autopsy report and a medical opinion.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an eye disability, finding that the evidence does not support a link between the condition and his active service or exposure to Agent Orange.

The Board denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to July 14, 2012.

The Board denied the appellant's claims for accrued benefits and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, as there were no pending claims or past-due benefits owed to the Veteran at the time of his death, and he was not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disabilities continuously rated totally disabling for a period of 10 years immediately preceding his death.

The Board granted a 40 percent rating for myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome with temporomandibular joint syndrome, but denied an increased rating for reflex dystrophy right lower extremity and other claims.

The appeal for an initial disability rating in excess of 40 percent for the Veteran's gastrointestinal disability is remanded due to incomplete actions requested by a previous Board remand.

The claim for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services provided between March 6, 2009 and March 30, 2009 was dismissed due to the unavailability of the appellant.

The Board granted entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) as the Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.

The Board restored the 60 percent rating for degenerative joint disease of the low back effective August 1, 2017, and granted a TDIU from November 22, 2013.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment since March 2011, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is granted.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral eye photophobia, bilateral eye blepharitis, bilateral eye conjunctivitis, and left eye legal blindness based on the evidence being approximately evenly balanced as to whether these conditions are related to the Veteran's active duty service.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from securing or following substantially gainful employment for the period prior to February 7, 2017.

The appeal was dismissed because the full benefit sought on appeal, service connection for left eye blindness including light perception only, was granted by the Agency of Original Jurisdiction prior to the Board's decision.

The veteran's appeal for a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) was dismissed as the Board Appeal request was not timely filed.

The appeal for an increased rating for service-connected left foot plantar fasciitis was withdrawn by the veteran.

The Veteran's spouse is granted a general apportionment of 20 percent of the Veteran's VA disability compensation benefits.

The Veteran is granted an effective date of May 7, 2020, for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on aid and attendance.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death before filing an appeal to the Board.

The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for left and right femoral acetabular impingement syndrome due to an inadequate examination report that failed to properly consider flare-ups.

The Board remands the claim for entitlement to enroll in VA's Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically an inadequate medical opinion.