The appeal of the issues of service connection for a right foot disability, flat feet and an increased rating for residuals, fracture, 5th metatarsal shaft, right foot is dismissed. From September 21, 2011, entitlement to a 40 percent rating for lumbosacral strain is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability has been found to have incapacitating episodes having a total duration of at least four weeks but less than six weeks during the past year.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"lumbosacral strain"}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19160180
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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