The veteran's respiratory disorder was granted an increased rating to 30 percent effective August 15, 2004.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed consistent complaints of daily productive cough with sputum and frequent antibiotic treatment on or after March 11, 1997.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchiectasis, residuals of a pulmonary abscess, tuberculosis, pulmonary, chronic, minimal, inactive, chronic pleurisy fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 29, 2004
- Citation
- 0408113
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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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