The Board denied reopening the claim of service connection for a stomach condition due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence did not provide a new factual basis that would warrant granting service connection for the current stomach problem as having been incurred during active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- Stomach condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0836555
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What this means for you
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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).
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal regarding the assignment of a 50 percent evaluation for his service-connected stomach condition was remanded. The AOJ found that the April 2013 rating decision, which assigned this increased evaluation, contained CUE and reduced it to 10 percent effective from February 2, 2012. The Veteran is now seeking a higher rating.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sinusitis under the PACT Act and remanded other claims for further development.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claims for service connection for various conditions as they were duplicative of other appeals.
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