The Veteran's claims for service connection for painful feet and chronic back disability have been granted as new and material evidence has been received. The issues of service connection are now reopened.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hallux Valgus (Painful Feet), Chronic Back Disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19195201
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,776 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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