The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to December 16, 2014, for the grant of service connection for bilateral inguinal hernia is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for bilateral inguinal hernia is denied.,The Veteran's claims for reopening his previously denied claims of entitlement to service connection for hypertension and a kidney condition, to include as secondary to hypertension, are remanded.
The deciding factor: An earlier effective date is not warranted because VA did not receive an informal or formal claim prior to December 16, 2014.,The Veteran's right inguinal hernia status post bilateral inguinal hernia repairs does not more nearly approximate small postoperative recurrent, or unoperated irremediable, not well supported by truss, or not readily reducible and a higher rating is not warranted.,Additional development is needed to determine the Veteran's periods of active duty for training (ACDUTRA) and inactive duty for training (INACDUTRA).
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral inguinal hernia, Hypertension, Kidney condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2022
- Citation
- 22035663
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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