The Veteran's appeal for service connection for fallen arches was dismissed because the Notice of Disagreement (NOD) was not timely filed.
The deciding factor: The NOD was submitted four years after the rating decision, which is beyond the one-year deadline to file a legacy NOD under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- fallen arches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2024
- Citation
- A24070296
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Decisions by this judge: 1,960 · Granted: 36% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for various conditions including Athlete's foot, allergic rhinitis, lumbar spine condition, left knee condition, right knee condition, fallen arches, migraines (headaches) condition, and an acquired psychological condition. The Veteran's claims are not currently addressed as there is no evidence of a current disability.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for degenerative arthritis with degenerative disc disease other than intervertebral disc syndrome and retrolisthesis L2-L3, degenerative arthritis, other than post-traumatic, right knee, lateral collateral ligament sprain (chronic/recurrent), left ankle, right ankle, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), tinea pedis, fallen arches, and left knee instability due to inadequate VA medical opinions.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed because the Veteran filed a VA Form 10182 more than one year after the December 2022 and January 2023 rating decisions that addressed the service connection issues.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been granted, with the exception of those related to PTSD and a right knee condition.,VA has determined that new evidence received since previous denials supports the Veteran's claims for anxiety, neck/cervical spine condition, degenerative arthritis, dysthymic disorder, fallen arches, herpes, left knee condition, major depression, migraines, and thoracolumbar spine condition. The right knee condition and PTSD remain under consideration.
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