The appeal regarding the reduction of the Veteran's right knee recurrent subluxation rating from 20 percent to 10 percent and discontinuance of DEA benefits is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The proposed reductions were not decisions on the merits at the time the Veteran filed her appeal, as a final decision had not yet been issued by the AOJ.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee recurrent subluxation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 1, 2024
- Citation
- A24071062
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 831 · Granted: 48% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 case due to insufficient evidence regarding the severity of the Veteran's right knee subluxation and instability during the period from January 29, 2014, to September 27, 2019. Additional development is required to obtain a retrospective opinion addressing this issue.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased ratings of knee conditions and service connection for a heart disability due to deficiencies in previous examinations.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claims for effective dates prior to May 7, 2019, for the grants of service connection for right and left knee recurrent subluxation, as well as bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and TDIU are being remanded due to the inadequacy of the September 2023 VA examination. The examiner is required to reconcile findings with previous examinations.
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