The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and a neck disorder, finding that new and material evidence was not received to reopen these claims. The claim for service connection for a neck disorder is remanded due to the need for an examination.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not provide sufficient new and material evidence to reopen his claims of service connection for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and a neck disorder, as the evidence submitted was neither cumulative nor redundant of previous records and did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate these claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Degenerative Disc Disease of the Cervical Spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2010
- Citation
- 1028537
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What this means for you
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