The Board denied the appellant's claims for accrued benefits and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation due to the severance of service connection for diabetes mellitus, as well as her request for retroactive payment based on an earlier effective date.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted for diabetes mellitus as a result of herbicide exposure. The Board found that the appellant's claims were not properly addressed because the original decision granting service connection was not clearly erroneous and did not involve CUE.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, chronic renal insufficiency, peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremities, status post right below the knee amputation with peripheral vascular disease, neurogenic bladder disease, bilateral diabetic retinopathy, erectile dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1023882
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