The Board granted service connection for a chronic back disability, finding that the Veteran's symptoms began during his active duty and have been recurrent since then.
The deciding factor: The Board found the lay evidence and medical records to be persuasive in establishing a link between the Veteran's current condition and his in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic back disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 4, 2021
- Citation
- 21061633
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of whether there was clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in prior rating decisions that denied service connection for various conditions, as an SOC has not yet been issued.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a higher disability rating for the right ankle and service connection for right ear hearing loss and pulmonary lung disability. All other issues were remanded for further evaluation.
- Partly granted
The Board granted the reopening of previously denied claims for service connection for a chronic back disability, left knee contusion residuals, a chronic eye disability, and a left ear hearing loss disability. The claims for a right ear hearing loss disability were denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for a left ankle disability, left knee disability, and chronic back disability due to insufficient examination findings. The Veteran's service connection claim is denied as there is no current diagnosis of any left ankle disability.
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