The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for cold injury residuals of the bilateral lower extremities and assigned effective dates. The claim for an earlier effective date for PTSD service connection remains pending.
The deciding factor: The November 2011 VA examination report provided sufficient evidence to determine that the Veteran's symptoms warranted higher ratings, and the RO readjudicated the claims in April 2012, assigning effective dates of March 30, 2000 for increased ratings and March 24, 1999 for PTSD service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury residuals of bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 17, 2013
- Citation
- 1319482
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- Granted
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- Denied
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