The Board has granted service connection for right eye conjunctivitis and macular degeneration, finding that the claim was properly reopened based on new evidence. The veteran's original June 1964 denial of service connection remains in effect.
The deciding factor: The Board found that new evidence had been submitted to reopen the claim, leading to a grant of service connection for right eye conjunctivitis and macular degeneration.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye conjunctivitis, right eye macular degeneration
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- February 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0605403
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Decisions by this judge: 2,642 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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