The Veteran's claims for hypertension, stroke disability, and service connection for bilateral lower extremity disability, migraine headaches disability, and acquired psychiatric disorder have been dismissed due to withdrawal. The remaining issues of entitlement to a rating in excess of 20 percent for diabetes mellitus, service connection for bilateral lower extremity disability (numbness and swelling in the ankles and feet), service connection for migraine headaches disability, and service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder are remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his claims for hypertension and stroke disability prior to a decision being made. The remaining issues require further examination and medical opinion due to lack of adequate evidence or clear factual premises in the current records.
- Claimed conditions
- Hypertension (claimed as high blood pressure), Stroke disability, Diabetes mellitus, type II, Bilateral lower extremity disability (numbness and swelling in the ankles and feet), Migraine headaches disability, Acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2020
- Citation
- 20069345
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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- Granted
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