The Board denied the Veteran's claims for an effective date earlier than March 7, 2010 for his ratings of 20 percent for residuals of frostbite in both feet due to lack of formal or informal claims within one year after the revised rating criteria was implemented.
The deciding factor: There were no formal or informal claims made by the Veteran from January 1998 up until March 7, 2011, and the effective date for the increased ratings can only be authorized for a period of no more than one year prior to the date of receipt of such request.
- Claimed conditions
- Frostbite, Onychomycosis of all toes, Atrophic nails
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19170070
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for earlier effective date for service connection of Raynaud's syndrome associated with frostbite is denied. The Board found that the issue was not reasonably raised at the time of the December 1986 rating decision.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied extraschedular ratings for service-connected residuals of frostbite of the upper and lower extremities, finding that the available schedular evaluations were adequate.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's cold injury residuals of the right and left feet have been granted increased ratings, with a 30% rating for both feet as of May 26, 2011. The TDIU claim has also been granted from April 27, 2015.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Veteran's upper extremity frostbite residuals have been rated as noncompensable, and the appeal is denied for ratings in excess of 10 percent.,The Veteran's lower extremity frostbite residuals have been rated as noncompensable, and the appeal is denied for ratings in excess of 10 percent.
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