The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities prior to February 19, 2018, and an initial compensable disability rating for right ureteral calculus.
The deciding factor: The Veteran failed to provide necessary information and forms required to adjudicate his claim of entitlement to TDIU prior to February 19, 2018, rendering the appeal abandoned. For the right ureteral calculus, there was no evidence of occasional or frequent attacks of colic.
- Claimed conditions
- right ureteral calculus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2025
- Citation
- 25008539
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