The Board has determined that the Veteran's previously denied claim of service connection for a bilateral foot disability cannot be reopened due to lack of new and material evidence. The claims for low back, right hip, and arthritis of arms disabilities have been denied as not related to active service or service-connected conditions. The compensable rating for traumatic injury to sternal area has also been denied.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not provide sufficient information to reopen the previously denied claim of service connection for a bilateral foot disability, nor does it establish that any of the Veteran's current disabilities are related to active service or service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Foot Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2011
- Citation
- 1140211
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for a bilateral foot disability and migraine disability, both secondary to existing service-connected disabilities.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral foot disability, finding that it is at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected psychiatric disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension, right and left knee disability, bilateral foot disability, and TDIU due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for right and left knee disabilities, as well as a right wrist disability. The back disability claim is remanded due to the inextricably intertwined nature with the bilateral foot disability.
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