The Veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates for service connection of IBS with gastritis and GERD with hiatal hernia, and lumbago was dismissed.,An effective date of August 29, 2007, but no earlier, for the award of service connection for radiculopathy, left lower extremity, is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claims were not timely filed and did not meet the criteria for an earlier effective date as per VA regulations.,The Veteran has continuous pursuit of her claim since August 2007, when she initially submitted a claim for bilateral leg numbness. The effective date is assigned based on the day following separation from active service.
- Claimed conditions
- IBS with gastritis and GERD with hiatal hernia, lumbago
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2022
- Citation
- 22043974
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
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