The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claims for service connection on a direct basis for cervical spine disability, numbness of the hands, lumbar spine disability, and thoracic spine disability. The appeals are granted.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was found sufficient to reopen the previously denied claims of service connection for these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical Spine Disability, Numbness of the Hands, Lumbar Spine Disability, Thoracic Spine Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2002
- Citation
- 0208865
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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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