The Board has dismissed appeals seeking increased ratings for right lower extremity sciatic neuropathy with degenerative disc disease and residuals of a gunshot wound to the left foot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeals through his authorized representative in March 2022 correspondence.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity sciatic neuropathy with degenerative disc disease, residuals of a gunshot wound to the left foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 30, 2022
- Citation
- 22018937
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a left lower leg and left ankle disability, as well as an increased rating for the veteran's service-connected left foot disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's appeals regarding increased ratings for various conditions, including labyrinthitis, defective hearing, gunshot wound residuals, duodenal ulcer, and tinnitus. The claims were not related to service connection via a presumption or new evidence.
- Granted
The veteran's residuals of a gunshot wound to the left foot are manifested by partial amputation of the great and second toes, a heel spur with plantar calcification, bony ankylosis, and degenerative changes in the left great toe. The schedular criteria for a rating of 40 percent have been met.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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