The Board granted service connection for spastic paraparesis and assigned a 40 percent rating effective from April 21, 1997. The RO is to readjudicate the special monthly compensation claim and any other pending claims.
The deciding factor: Service connection was reopened on new evidence received in April 2000.
- Claimed conditions
- spastic paraparesis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 1, 2000
- Citation
- 0028889
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's notice of disagreement was not timely filed, and therefore denied his appeal.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board finds that the preponderance of the evidence is against the veteran's claim for service connection for spastic paraparesis.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran meets the medical criterion for loss of use of both feet due to his service-connected spastic paraparesis, and therefore grants entitlement to special monthly compensation (SMC) based on the loss of use of both legs.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for spastic paraparesis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and hypertension as the evidence did not show these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by military service.
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