The Veteran's asthma is granted as secondary to his service-connected allergic rhinitis, and he is awarded a 10 percent rating for sinusitis. The issue of entitlement to a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple, noncompensable, service-connected disabilities is dismissed as moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's asthma was found to be proximately due to his service-connected allergic rhinitis and granted as secondary. His sinusitis met the criteria for a 10 percent rating based on incapacitating episodes of sinusitis.
- Claimed conditions
- asthma, sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19124710
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.
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