Your service connection claims for left and right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy have been fully granted in an August 2024 rating decision, making the appeal moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claim was resolved by a full grant of benefits in an earlier rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral neuropathy, left lower extremity (LLE), peripheral neuropathy, right lower extremity (RLE)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2024
- Citation
- A24050377
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and bilateral hearing loss, but denied service connection for traumatic brain injury (TBI), diabetes mellitus type II, lumbar condition, peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The claim for service connection for a left knee condition (to include patellofemoral syndrome and DJD) is remanded for readjudication, as new and relevant evidence has been received sufficient to reopen the claim.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeal to increase his combined disability rating from 90% to 100% was denied. The Board found no error in the calculation of the combined evaluation.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for DM2, erectile dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy of the LLE and RLE, and CAD are all granted. The aortic aneurysm claim is remanded.
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