The Board has granted the Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for bilateral foot arthritis and remanded it for further development.
The deciding factor: The new evidence received since the final denial includes VA examination reports that diagnosed bilateral foot arthritis, which relates to an unestablished fact of a current diagnosis in the last final denial.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral foot arthritis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2020
- Citation
- 20004599
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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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