Your claims for service connection for disabilities of your bilateral shoulders and right elbow have been granted. However, the Board has dismissed these appeals as they are no longer relevant due to the grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claims were previously remanded but subsequently granted service connection without any need for further review.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral shoulders, right elbow
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 24, 2023
- Citation
- 23046094
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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