The Veteran's appeal to find her February 2008 VA Form 9 timely was dismissed as she requested to withdraw the appeal.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew her appeal by requesting to reopen her claim for service connection for bilateral breast reduction with residual scars instead of pursuing the issue of timeliness of the February 2008 VA Form 9.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral breast reduction with residual scars
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2012
- Citation
- 1203001
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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