The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claims for service connection for bilateral foot disorders and left heel bone spurs with scar tissue. The September 2003 rating decision denying service connection for bilateral pes planus is final, as is the June 2002 denial of service connection for bilateral knee disorders.
The deciding factor: The evidence submitted since the last final denial does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral foot disorders, left heel bone spurs
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1032292
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- Remanded (sent back)
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