The Board has granted service connection for cervical and lumbar conditions, effective April 28, 2015. The Veteran's original claim was denied in September 2008 due to lack of evidence of a back disability. Service connection was reopened in September 2012 but denied again in October 2013. The Veteran filed a new application for service connection on April 28, 2015, and the Board granted it.
The deciding factor: The effective date is set to the date of claim as the earliest possible date due to the rules governing the application of effective dates.
- Claimed conditions
- back injury, neck injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- April 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19130831
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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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- Dismissed
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a neck injury, left shoulder injury, and low back injury as the evidence did not support that these conditions began during active service or are otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
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