The Veteran's claim for service connection for dyshidrotic eczema has been reopened, and the Board has granted service connection. The effective date of the award is pending resolution of a remanded issue regarding an earlier effective date for a scar. Additionally, the Veteran's claim for left lower extremity osteopenia remains in remand status.
The deciding factor: The new evidence received since April 1976 raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran’s claim for service connection for dyshidrotic eczema.
- Claimed conditions
- dyshidrotic eczema, left lower extremity osteopenia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19179870
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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