Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation from September 2, 2023.

The Board denied an effective date prior to August 22, 2019, for the award of additional VA compensation benefits for the Veteran's spouse.

The claim for a government-furnished memorial product was denied because the service member only had active duty for training with the United States Army National Guard, which did not meet the required minimum of two years of active-duty service.

The appeal concerning entitlement to payment of the cost of non-VA medical services provided on February 19, 2021, is denied.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for metastatic liver disease and gastric cancer due to a duty to assist error in not obtaining medical records from Darnell Army Medical Center at Fort Hood (DACH) from 1995 to 2020.

The appeal concerning entitlement to payment of the cost of non-VA medical services provided on February 28, 2021, was denied due to lack of VA authorization.

The Board granted eligibility to attorney fees based on the full amount of 20 percent of past-due benefits awarded in a September 2020 rating decision, despite the Veteran's receipt of military retirement pay.

The Board denied entitlement to service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding no evidence linking the causes of death to active-duty service.

The appeal for eligibility to the direct payment of attorney fees based on the past-due benefits awarded in June 2023 was dismissed due to a timely Notice of Disagreement not being filed.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of March 1, 2017 for the award of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) based on service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of TDIU, finding that a factually ascertainable increase in disability occurred on October 3, 2022.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for VA educational assistance benefits for his son under the Transfer of Entitlement provisions of Chapter 33, as there was no showing that the service department approved a request by the Veteran to transfer such benefits.

The issue of entitlement to a TDIU is dismissed as moot because the Veteran has been granted a 100 percent disability rating for a single service-connected condition and special monthly compensation at the housebound rate.

The Veteran was granted an earlier effective date of July 30, 2015, for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for a skin disorder of the neck to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for right index, little, middle, and ring finger trigger fingers as further development is needed to provide an adequate VA examination.

The appeal concerning entitlement to payment of the cost of non-VA medical services provided on January 7, 2021, was denied due to lack of VA authorization.

The Board dismissed the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection and denied a motion to revise an administrative decision on clear and unmistakable error.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, finding no evidence that he became unemployable due to his service-connected conditions within one year prior to filing his TDIU application.

The Board granted service connection for a respiratory disability, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.