Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Board granted an effective date of August 4, 2022, for the grant of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA).

The appeal for payment of non-VA medical care provided by Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi on January 21, 2021, was dismissed due to Benefit Recovery not being a proper claimant.

The appeal concerning entitlement to a waiver for an outstanding debt is dismissed due to the lack of a decision on appeal.

The appeal for an earlier effective date for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) was denied as the criteria were not met.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to engage and retain substantially gainful employment, warranting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.

The Board denied the claim for an effective date prior to October 17, 2013, for TDIU, finding that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities did not prevent him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation during the relevant period.

The Board remands the claim for a right upper extremity disability secondary to a service-connected left radial nerve disability due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board denied the challenges to the creation and amount of an overpayment arising from the Appellant's failure to notify VA of receipt of Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits, but remanded the claims for further review.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services was dismissed because the billing company that filed the request is not a proper claimant.

The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, acute myeloid leukemia, which was determined to be related to in-service exposure to herbicide agents.

The appeal was dismissed as the issue of entitlement to payment for non-VA medical services provided on February 5, 2021, has been resolved in full by administrative action.

Eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded to the Veteran pursuant to an October 2023 rating decision is granted.

The appeal of the issue of entitlement to DIC benefits based on service connection for the Veteran's cause of death is dismissed.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to an earlier effective date for a separate 20 percent disability rating for oculomotor nerve palsy, left eye, and a 30 percent disability rating for headaches due to a duty to assist error.

The Board granted eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees from past due benefits awarded in November 2021 and July 2022 rating decisions.

The appeals for payment of non-VA care costs provided to the Veteran on September 10, 2019 and October 3, 2019 have been dismissed as they were administratively resolved in favor of the appellant.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services on July 28, 2021, was dismissed because a proper claimant did not file the necessary Notice of Disagreement.

The application to revise a June 2017 rating decision, based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE), which denied service connection for psychosis, was denied.

The Board remands the matters of entitlement to an effective date prior to August 10, 2015 for the grant of a TDIU and DEA due to an error in fulfilling a statutory or regulatory duty regarding the determination of the last day on which the Veteran was substantially gainfully employed.