The Veteran's claims for increased rating and service connection were granted. The claim for right leg pain was also granted.
The deciding factor: New evidence related to the Veteran's current symptoms and established a reasonable possibility of substantiating her claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative changes of the lumbosacral spine at L4-5 and L5-S1, Right leg pain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- March 19, 2013
- Citation
- 1309195
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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