The Board denied an increased rating for tonsillitis and pharyngitis, a denial of an earlier effective date for rhinosinusitis, and a denial of an increased rating for rhinosinusitis. The conditions are currently rated as 10 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: There was no ascertainable increase in disability within one year prior to the receipt of the claim for an increased rating.
- Claimed conditions
- tonsillitis, pharyngitis, rhinosinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0003314
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 19, 2016, for the award of service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome, cluster headaches, back muscle pain, rhinosinusitis, and right knee painful joint.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus but denied service connection for the remaining conditions.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including right and left hip, right and left knee, left shoulder, callus of the left big toe, and pharyngitis, as there was no evidence to support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's active military service.
- Dismissed
The appeal for a rating in excess of 10 percent for GERD and for a compensable rating for pharyngitis was dismissed due to the untimely filing of the Notice of Disagreement.
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