The Board has granted an increased rating of 10 percent for bronchial asthma with COPD, effective from September 1997. The veteran's appeal is now resolved as the RO assigned a higher rating than requested.
The deciding factor: The VA determined that the current rating adequately reflects the severity of the veteran's condition based on the evidence of record.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchial asthma with COPD
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0309220
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 271 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
The Veteran's bronchial asthma with COPD is rated at 100 percent disabling, effective February 13, 2020. The decision also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Granted
The Veteran's bronchial asthma with COPD resulted in a FEV-1 of less than 40 percent predicted, warranting an initial rating of 100% as of August 4, 2016. The effective date for the award is set at August 4, 2016.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's sleep apnea is being remanded for a VA medical examiner to determine if it is at least as likely as not caused or aggravated by his service-connected bronchial asthma with COPD. The TDIU issue is also being remanded due to its inextricability from the service connection claim.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected bronchial asthma with COPD is found to have caused his mood disorder, and the claim for secondary service connection for a mood disorder is granted.
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