The Board granted service connection for left leg numbness, effective January 11, 2013.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on the chronic disease presumptive service connection provisions due to continuous symptoms since service separation.
- Claimed conditions
- left leg numbness
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 4, 2023
- Citation
- 23000328
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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