Your appeal for service connection for diabetes mellitus, sarcoidosis/lymphadenopathy, and a low back disorder has been dismissed.,Your appeal for a rating in excess of 30 percent for peripheral neuropathy with ulnar nerve involvement of the right upper extremity has also been dismissed. As of February 7, 2008, you were granted a 30% rating for this condition and your TDIU was awarded as of February 1, 2009.
The deciding factor: Your service-connected conditions have rendered you unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, sarcoidosis/lymphadenopathy, low back disorder, peripheral neuropathy with ulnar nerve involvement of the right upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 6, 2021
- Citation
- 21072720
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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