The veteran's low back disorder is currently evaluated as 10 percent disabling, effective from May 4, 1995. Service connection has been granted for PTSD and seizure disorder.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a grant of an initial 10% evaluation for the veteran's low back disorder based on slight limitation or functional impairment due to pain dating from May 4, 1995.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disorder, seizure disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hemorrhoids, left knee disorder, left ankle disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 19, 2000
- Citation
- 0013263
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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