The Veteran's service connection claims for various conditions, including pes planus, back impairment, right hip impairment, gastritis, diabetes, and related neuropathies have been granted. The effective dates are not specified as the claim was filed within one year of separation from service.
The deciding factor: Service connection is established based on secondary to diabetes for left lower extremity, right lower extremity, left upper extremity, and right upper extremity neuropathy.
- Claimed conditions
- Pes Planus, Back Impairment, Right Hip Impairment, Gastritis, Diabetes, Left Lower Extremity Neuropathy (Secondary to Diabetes), Right Lower Extremity Neuropathy (Secondary to Diabetes), Left Upper Extremity Neuropathy (Secondary to Diabetes), Right Upper Extremity Neuropathy (Secondary to Diabetes)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 24, 2024
- Citation
- 24003503
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 696 · Granted: 63% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to a duty to assist error. The VA needs to obtain examination reports and determine if the service-connected conditions meet the criteria for specially adapted housing and special home adaptation grant.
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