The Board has granted the Veteran's application to reopen his claim of service connection for a lumbosacral spine condition, and remanded it for further development.
The deciding factor: New evidence was received sufficient to support reopening the previously denied claim of service connection for a lumbosacral spine condition.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral spine condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19102642
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to an initial increased rating for a left knee strain and a left ankle disability, as well as service connection claims for various conditions due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of the service connection claims for various conditions based on new and relevant evidence, but remanded several claims for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable disability rating for tension headaches and an initial disability rating in excess of 20 percent for a lumbosacral spine condition to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) as moot because the veteran already has a combined 100 percent rating.
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