The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for back injury residuals, and thus the claim is granted.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence was submitted which relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim - a current disability (back injury residuals).
- Claimed conditions
- back injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0621733
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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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