The Veteran's claim for service connection for lumbar DDD has been reopened and is being remanded for further examination. The claims for left knee disorder and right knee disorder are also being remanded.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the last denial raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection for lumbar DDD, but the other issues remain pending as they were not addressed in the previous decision.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD), left knee disorder, right knee disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19105393
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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