The Board has dismissed the claim for service connection for recurring ingrown toenail because it was granted in a previous decision. The Board also denied the claim for bilateral heel spurs, finding no evidence of current diagnosis.
The deciding factor: No current diagnosis of bilateral heel spurs was found by the VA examiner.
- Claimed conditions
- recurring ingrown toenail, bilateral heel spurs
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2021
- Citation
- 21066326
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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