The Veteran is granted an effective date of January 23, 2008 for the award of a 40 percent evaluation for lumbar osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine.,The Veteran is granted service connection for left lower extremity radiculopathy with an effective date of June 24, 2016.
The deciding factor: Both conditions are secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability and have been shown to worsen since the last rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- Lumbar Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Disc Disease, Left Lower Extremity Radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 24, 2018
- Citation
- 1804663
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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.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, except for a 20 percent rating for lumbosacral strain.
- Dismissed
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
The Board granted restoration of the 40 percent rating for the lumbar spine disability, effective November 1, 2023, and denied a higher rating. The claims for increased ratings for radiculopathy and TDIU were remanded.
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