The Board has granted service connection for cervical myeloradiculopathy but denied the request for an earlier effective date. The veteran's claim was reopened and service connection was established based on new evidence received in December 2000, with a current evaluation of 20%.
The deciding factor: The RO found that there was no evidence to support aggravation during service, which is why the effective date cannot be earlier than December 29, 2000, when the claim was reopened and granted.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical myeloradiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2003
- Citation
- 0309882
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,776 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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