The veteran's lumbar spine disability is currently rated as 20 percent disabling, and his thoracic spine disability is rated at 10 percent. The Board has determined that the current ratings are appropriate.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not meet the criteria for a higher rating under any applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar strain with spondylolysis L5, degenerative changes, thoracic spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- July 2, 2001
- Citation
- 0117660
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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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- Dismissed
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