The Board denied earlier effective dates for service connection and related benefits due to lack of evidence showing the Veteran's conditions arose within one year of his initial claim or prior to the effective date of the previous award.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted within a year of the June 2014 rating decision, which is when the service connection for diabetes mellitus type II was initially granted. The earliest evidence of peripheral neuropathy in either lower extremity was on December 4, 2015, and in either upper extremity was on October 27, 2017.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus Type II, Right Lower Extremity Sciatic Neuropathy, Right Lower Extremity Femoral Neuropathy, Left Lower Extremity Sciatic Neuropathy, Left Lower Extremity Femoral Neuropathy, Right Upper Extremity Peripheral Neuropathy, Left Upper Extremity Peripheral Neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24025603
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