The Veteran withdrew her appeal for service connection for residuals of a lower back injury before the Board could make a decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested to withdraw her appeal, which was received by VA in May 2019.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a lower back injury
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19167007
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Decisions by this judge: 1,350 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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