The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claim for service connection for bilateral leg disability. Additionally, there is no clear and unmistakable error in the March 1976 rating decision denying service connection for bilateral leg pain.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim. The Board finds that there is disagreement as to how the facts were weighed or evaluated, which is not a basis for finding CUE.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral leg disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2018
- Citation
- 1808085
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