The Board found that the evidence received since the prior denials was not new and material, thus denying the reopening of the veteran's claims for service connection for a psychiatric disorder and diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence did not include any information or evidence that would be significant enough to consider in order to fairly decide the merits of these claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disorder, Diabetes Mellitus
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 26, 2002
- Citation
- 0210503
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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