The Veteran's right hip disability was granted service connection and a rating of 70% effective November 13, 2019. Service connection for low back degenerative arthritis was also granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence supported the grant of service connection for both conditions based on their direct relationship to the Veteran's military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease, Right Hip, Low Back Degenerative Arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 18, 2024
- Citation
- 24016708
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased ratings due to inadequate VA medical examinations and failure to comply with previous remand orders. The case is being returned for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development due to insufficient medical evidence and inextricably intertwined TDIU claim.
- Denied
The Board has denied the petitions to reopen previously denied claims for service connection of degenerative joint disease, right knee and left knee. The issues of entitlement to initial compensable ratings for right hip limitation of flexion, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation prior to March 1, 2018, and in excess of 10 percent thereafter; a rating in excess of 10 percent for degenerative joint disease, right hip; and a rating in excess of 20 percent for radiculopathy, right lower extremity; and residuals of a low back injury are dismissed.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for degenerative joint disease of the left hip, right hip, left knee, and back. The decision affirms that these conditions are related to the Veteran's active military service.
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