The Veteran's appeal for a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple, noncompensable service-connected disabilities is dismissed. Some issues have been remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested to withdraw his appeal for the specific issue of a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple, noncompensable service-connected disabilities prior to the Board's decision being finalized.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18103039
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities and a compensable rating for bilateral foot onychomycosis is denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for a compensable rating for acute/intermittent sinusitis and multiple, noncompensable service-connected disabilities is being remanded due to the inextricability of these issues with other claims on appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim due to an issue regarding clear and unmistakable error in a previous rating decision, which is intertwined with the current appeal for a 10 percent rating under 38 C.F.R. § 3.324 prior to February 9, 2015.
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