Your claims of entitlement to service connection for cold injuries of the left ear, left foot, left hand, nose, and right ear have been granted in full. These issues are now closed as your claims were fully satisfied.
The deciding factor: The March 2024 rating decision granted service connection for all claimed conditions, rendering the appeal moot.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury, left ear, cold injury, left foot, cold injury, left hand, cold injury, nose, cold injury, right ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 29, 2024
- Citation
- A24027982
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for cold injuries and lumbosacral strain, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a TDIU prior to September 28, 2018 was denied as he was not unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's claims for service connection for cold injuries of his hands. The issues of entitlement to an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD with depressive disorder, from December 22, 2004 to May 14, 2013, and entitlement to a TDIU prior to July 27, 2015 are remanded. The Veteran's claim for service connection for left foot cold weather injury is also remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including cold injuries to his extremities and hearing loss, prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
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