The veteran withdrew his appeal for entitlement to Total Disability Rating Due to Individual Unemployability (TDIU). The issues of evaluation in excess of 10 percent for service-connected right knee injury and service connection for generalized degenerative arthritis claimed as secondary to service-connected residuals of a right knee injury will be the subject of a later decision.
The deciding factor: The veteran withdrew his appeal for TDIU by indicating he wished to withdraw it in writing.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2002
- Citation
- 0204390
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension, bowel and gastrointestinal conditions, hepatitis C in remission, sinusitis, allergies (allergic rhinitis), skin disability (eczema, dermatitis, or lichen planus), unspecified joint pains, generalized degenerative arthritis, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, back disability, right lower extremity disability, left lower extremity disability, right knee arthritis, left knee arthritis, left wrist disability, and finger condition for further development.
- Partly granted
The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claims for service connection for various conditions, including bilateral shoulder disability, right knee disability, right elbow disability, a disability of the right hand and fingers, lupus erythematosus, generalized degenerative arthritis, hypertension, Sjogren's disease, stomach disability, prostate disability, residuals of a fractured right forefinger, and residuals of an injury to the veteran's left side. The Board found that the evidence received since the February 2000 decisions is not new and material.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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