The Board granted a 30 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected partial loss of tongue and remanded an issue regarding entitlement to service connection for an esophageal condition as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected partial loss of tongue, residual of carcinoma.
The deciding factor: The evidence persuasively shows that the Veteran has a partial loss of his tongue with intact nutritional intake with permanently impaired swallowing function without prescribed dietary modification.
- Claimed conditions
- Partial loss of tongue, Esophageal condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- October 30, 2024
- Citation
- A24070191
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,077 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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