The Board has granted the reopening of claims for service connection for right hand disability, residuals of a right foot injury, bilateral knee disability, and denied service connection for neck disability. The claim for COPD is also granted. Service connection for bilateral shoulder disability remains pending.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claims for right hand disability, residuals of a right foot injury, and bilateral knee disability, but not for neck disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand disability, residuals of a right foot injury, neck disability, bilateral knee disability, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bilateral shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19149996
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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities to the AOJ for further development and consideration of evidence not previously considered.
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