The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for spastic colitis, finding that the correct facts were known at the time and the regulations were correctly applied. The decision is final as the Veteran did not submit a notice of disagreement or new and material evidence within the appeal period.
The deciding factor: The correct facts were known to the VA adjudicators in June 1971, and the statutory and regulatory provisions extant at that time were correctly applied.
- Claimed conditions
- spastic colitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 8, 2020
- Citation
- 20045554
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