The Board has granted a 20 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected low back disorder, effective from January 6, 2003. The right hip and wrist disorders are not service connected.
The deciding factor: VA examiners found no current disability entities related to the veteran's in-service complaints of right hip and wrist pain.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Disorder, Right Wrist Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 31, 2003
- Citation
- 0306035
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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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