The Board has granted service connection for a seizure disorder and dismissed the appeal of the denial of non-service-connected pension benefits.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a grant of service connection for a seizure disorder, as it was likely pre-existing but worsened during military service. The veteran is statutorily barred from appealing the February 1997 denial of non-service-connected pension benefits due to lack of timely filing of a substantive appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- Seizure Disorder
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2000
- Citation
- 0014696
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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.
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