The Veteran's claims for service connection for IBS, hiatal hernia, and GERD were granted with effective dates of December 15, 2014, May 13, 2015, and April 22, 2018 respectively. The claim for chronic fatigue syndrome was also granted but the effective date is set to the date it was received (May 13, 2015).
The deciding factor: The claims were reopened due to new evidence submitted within one year of the previous denial.
- Claimed conditions
- IBS, hiatal hernia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), chronic fatigue syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19157115
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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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