Your appeal has been dismissed due to the Veteran's death. The claims for service connection have not been decided.
The deciding factor: The Veteran passed away before a decision could be made on their claims.
- Claimed conditions
- left leg numbness, lower back pain due to surgery, painful scarring on back
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 25, 2024
- Citation
- A24060713
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for back condition, left hip condition, left leg numbness, left shoulder condition, and acquired psychiatric condition (depression) as secondary to a back injury during service. The evidence did not show current disabilities or a link between these conditions and service.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma from August 10, 2022, based on the Veteran's presumed exposure to burn pit smoke during his deployment in Kuwait and Afghanistan.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for left leg numbness and left lower extremity neurological dysfunction as secondary to residuals of a left thigh boil removal.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for the veteran's claimed disabilities as they were incurred during a period of dishonorable discharge.
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