The Board has dismissed the appeals for a temporary evaluation of 100 percent based on surgical or other treatment necessitating convalescence and special monthly compensation based on housebound criteria, as well as service connection for left knee osteoarthritis with meniscal tear. The Veteran's appeal is not properly before the Board at this time.
The deciding factor: The appeals were dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction under the older Legacy system.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disc disease with arthritis, lumbar spine, left knee osteoarthritis with meniscal tear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2019
- Citation
- A19002622
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,680 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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