The Board granted service connection for traumatic brain injury, headaches, cervical stenosis and arthropathy with radiculopathy status post diskectomy, lumbar spine degenerative disc disease, and individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the August 2015 rating decision is new and material, relating to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims of entitlement to service connection for these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Headaches, Cervical Stenosis and Arthropathy with Radiculopathy Status Post Diskectomy, Lumbar Spine Degenerative Disc Disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2024
- Citation
- 24003676
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.
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