The Board has granted a 40 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected palindromic rheumatism, effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran's symptoms were productive of disability equivalent to three or more incapacitating episodes per year, warranting a 40 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5002.
- Claimed conditions
- palindromic rheumatism
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- October 31, 2003
- Citation
- 0329879
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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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