The veteran's service-connected frostbite residuals and bipolar disorder have been rated appropriately, with no need for higher ratings based on the provided evidence.
The deciding factor: The current ratings adequately reflect the severity of the veteran's conditions as per VA rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Frostbite Residuals, Bipolar Disorder (previously diagnosed as Major Depression)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2007
- Citation
- 0713549
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for service connection for peripheral vascular disease of the hands and feet as a residual of frostbite was denied in June 1959. The effective date for this grant is December 29, 2006.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for peripheral vascular disease, which is secondary to his service-connected frostbite residuals, was granted with an effective date of December 30, 1997, the date he filed his informal claim.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The veteran's request for retroactive VA disability compensation prior to 1981 is dismissed as he did not identify a specific condition and the claim cannot be construed as an application to reopen a final claim or a claim of clear and unmistakable error in such a final claim.
- Whole decision: Granted
The veteran's initial increased rating for frostbite residuals in the feet was granted, but no new or material evidence has been presented to reopen his service connection claims for arthritis and a psychiatric disorder.
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