Your claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities has been granted, effective June 13, 2012. However, the full benefit sought (a TDIU) was already granted in your favor before you filed this appeal.
The deciding factor: The RO had previously granted the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities effective June 13, 2012. The Veteran did not file an NOD regarding the effective date or compensation level assigned in that decision.
- Claimed conditions
- fibromyalgia, lumbar disorder, right lower extremity radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- April 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19129339
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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for scarring, right orchiopexy and remanded the claim of asbestos exposure residuals. Other claims for service connection were denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma and remanded claims for insomnia and sleep apnea. Other conditions were denied.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection for fibromyalgia and Gulf War unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness, bronchus, as well as an extension of the temporary 100 percent disability evaluation.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for fibromyalgia as the evidence does not support a current diagnosis of the condition.
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