The appeal for service connection for chronic constipation was dismissed as moot because the matter was granted in an August 2022 rating decision.
The deciding factor: There is no longer a specific determination in which the claimant disagrees, as the benefit sought on appeal has been fully granted.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic constipation
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2024
- Citation
- A24068337
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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 and service connection, finding that the evidence did not support a finding of a causal relationship between the claimed conditions and active duty service.
- Dismissed
The Board denied the veteran's appeal for increased ratings and service connection due to untimely filing of the appeal requests.
- Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for migraines and chronic sinusitis, granted service connection for allergic rhinitis as secondary to the service-connected sinusitis, and granted a 30 percent rating for chronic constipation.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for various conditions as there was no appealable decision from the February 6, 2024, deferred rating.
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