Your skin condition, previously denied as ichthyosis, has been granted service connection with a 30% rating effective July 27, 2022. However, the appeal is dismissed because you did not file a notice of disagreement on the assigned rating or effective date.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not file a notice of disagreement regarding the assigned disability rating or effective date after the grant of service connection for ichthyosis.
- Claimed conditions
- ichthyosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- August 1, 2023
- Citation
- 23042063
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's eligibility for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) is being remanded due to a lack of explanation in the April 2021 decision regarding whether participation in the program was in his best interest. The Board finds that the Veteran requires personal care services due to disabilities including posttraumatic stress disorder, tension headaches, and others.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 10 percent rating for allergic rhinitis and a 20 percent rating for right sciatic radiculopathy, but denied higher ratings for left sciatic radiculopathy, chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), service connection for chronic sinusitis, pain of the right knee, bilateral hearing loss, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for sleep disturbance as a symptom of ichthyosis, but assigned a noncompensable rating. The issue is being remanded to obtain an examination and opinion to rate the sleep disturbance accurately.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's ichthyosis first manifested during his active service and grants entitlement to service connection for this condition.
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