The Board has granted service connection for skin disability, respiratory disability, diverticulitis, digestive system disability, pancreatic-intestinal system disability, and neurological disability. The decision is based on the Veteran's credible lay accounts and a supportive medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least evenly balanced as to whether each of the disabilities had its onset in service, and the reasonable doubt created by this relative equipoise must be resolved in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disability (eczema/urticaria), respiratory disability (bronchial asthma), diverticulitis, digestive system disability (GERD and gastritis), pancreatic-intestinal system disability (SIBO, IBS, colitis), neurological disability (idiopathic peripheral neuropathy, pressure palsy neuropathy, ataxia, aphasia, trigeminal neuralgia)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2024
- Citation
- A24014305
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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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- Granted
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