The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's skin disability, left foot disability, and right foot disability.
The deciding factor: New evidence provided by the Veteran in his hearing testimony supported the claim of service connection for these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Skin disability, Left foot disability, Right foot disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1009552
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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.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
The Board granted the readjudication of claims for service connection based on new and relevant evidence, but remanded other claims for further examination.
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