Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Veteran is granted a TDIU on an extraschedular basis effective July 10, 2020.

The Board remands the claim for a TDIU to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, as the AOJ failed to provide an adequate examination and medical opinion.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services provided on December 21, 2018 was dismissed due to the lack of a proper claimant.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for an initial compensable rating and an earlier effective date for service connection for tongue cancer.

The appeal for entitlement to service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death was dismissed due to improper concurrent election and pending claims-processing rules.

The Board remands the claim for a hysterectomy to obtain an addendum opinion regarding its relation to active duty service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a bowel and/or bladder condition as secondary to lumbosacral strain due to insufficient medical evidence.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a monthly stipend rate greater than $2,272 under Chapter 30 for the program of study from November 11, 2020 to November 25, 2020.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the 70 percent evaluation of bilateral hearing loss, as no formal claim was received between May 2, 2023, and July 20, 2024.

The Board granted the Veteran's appeal for a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, finding that his combined service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.

The Board denied the motion to revise a July 2022 rating decision based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE) regarding the effective date for a 100 percent rating for PTSD.

The termination of the appellant's survivor's pension was proper because her income from Social Security benefits exceeded the maximum annual pension rate.

The Veteran's request for a waiver of the overpayment of VA benefits was denied as it was not timely filed.

The appeal seeking entitlement to service connection for breast cancer, a TDIU, and a temporary total evaluation based on treatment of a service-connected condition subject to compensation (double mastectomy) is dismissed.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for costochondritis for a new VA examination to determine if the Veteran has a current diagnosis of costochondritis and, if so, whether it is related to her active service.

The appeal seeking revision or reversal, based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE), of an April 2019 rating decision that assigned an initial noncompensable rating for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) and did not assign separate compensable ratings for residuals was denied.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for adjustment disorder with depressed mood, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The appeal was dismissed because the Veteran's Notice of Disagreement did not identify a specific determination with which he disagreed.

The Veteran withdrew her appeals for service connection for scoliosis, Bertolotti syndrome, kyphoscoliosis, and left hip femoral-acetabular impingement syndrome.

The Board granted eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees to the appellant from benefits resulting from the October 2023 grant of past-due benefits.