The Board has granted the Veteran's requests to reopen his claims for service connection for skin rash, cold injury residuals, and an acquired psychiatric disorder. The cases are remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since previous decisions raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- skin rash, throat problems, congestion, nasal problems, acquired psychiatric disorder (including personality disorder, depressive disorder, and anxiety), cold injury residuals (feet numbness/tingling)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19184119
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
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- Partly granted
The Veteran is granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to tinnitus, effective April 1, 2021. The claim for an earlier effective date for depressive disorder was denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right and left ankle disabilities, a skin rash, and denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, shortness of breath, PTSD, OSA, cervical spine disability, lumbar spine disability, knee disabilities, CPS, and earlier effective dates.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder to obtain a VA examination and etiological opinion.
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