The Board has found that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the Veteran's claims for service connection, but she does not meet the criteria for service connection as her current conditions are not supported by medical evidence.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not provide sufficient medical or lay evidence of a current disability related to her claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Nervous Condition, Bilateral Arthritis of the Knees, Back Condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2011
- Citation
- 1109307
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion to revise a 1991 rating decision denying service connection for a nervous condition due to lack of CUE, as the evidence did not show that any error of fact or law manifestly changed the outcome of the decision.
- Denied
The August 1996 rating decision denied service connection for a back condition due to the claim being considered not well-grounded, as there was no current disability and no evidence of in-service injury or disease.
- Granted
The Board has granted an earlier effective date of December 18, 2019 for the award of service connection for PTSD and acquired psychiatric disorder (nervous condition). The appellant's original claim was denied in August 1979 due to lack of evidence supporting his claim. He continuously pursued the issue by submitting supplemental claims after 1979.
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