The Veteran seeks an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for a low back disorder, which was granted on October 2002.,He also seeks an earlier effective date for the assignment of TDIU. The RO is instructed to obtain records from the California unemployment agency and readjudicate his claim.
The deciding factor: The Veteran filed a timely notice of disagreement with the September 1994 rating decision, which precluded its finality.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar strain with degenerative joint disease and degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2011
- Citation
- 1103892
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- Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the grants of service connection for chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus type II, diabetic peripheral neuropathy of all extremities, hypertension, and coronary artery disease, but denied earlier effective dates for bilateral hearing loss and surgical scar of the low back, midline. The Board also remanded claims for service connection for various disabilities.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's increased ratings for lumbar strain with degenerative joint disease and degenerative disc disease, right lower extremity radiculopathy, TDIU claim, left hip condition, and right hip condition have been dismissed.,The Veteran's service connection claims for asthma have also been dismissed.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased evaluations for his service-connected lumbar strain with degenerative joint disease and degenerative disc disease were denied by the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA).
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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