The Veteran's claim for TDIU is denied as the combined disability rating has reached 100%, making it moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined disability rating of 100% renders his TDIU claim moot due to the application of 38 U.S.C. § 7104, which states that the Board only decides actual case questions of fact or law.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injuries, peripheral neuropathies
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 18, 2020
- Citation
- A20019000
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for cold injuries and depression. The claims of whether new and material evidence has been received to reopen a claim for service connection for bilateral flat feet, generalized primary osteoarthritis, knee replacement resulting from bone cancer, hypertension, prostate cancer, diabetes, and migraine headaches are remanded due to missing service treatment records.
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