The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for lumbar spine degenerative arthritis due to new evidence. Service connection is denied for all other conditions.
The deciding factor: No new or material evidence was submitted to reopen the previously denied claims, and the Veteran's service treatment records do not show any onset of these conditions within a year of separation from service or causal relationship to service.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"lumbar spine degenerative arthritis","additional_notes":"upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus"}, {"condition_name":"bilateral upper extremity peripheral neuropathy","additional_notes":""}, {"condition_name":"bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy","additional_notes":""}
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 19, 2020
- Citation
- 20067499
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.
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