The appeal for service connection for a mild neurocognitive disorder is dismissed because the Veteran has been granted this benefit.
The deciding factor: There is no dispute, case, or controversy remaining as the effective date for a separate grant of service connection for a mild neurocognitive disorder would not pre-date the effective date for service connection for Parkinson's disease.
- Claimed conditions
- mild neurocognitive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25019160
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 399 · Granted: 41% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent evaluation for the Veteran's service-connected mild neurocognitive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, persistent depressive disorder, somatic symptoms disorder with predominant pain, and TBI but remanded other issues.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of December 20, 2022, for the award of service connection for a psychiatric disorder.
- Denied
The Veteran's initial compensable rating for idiopathic hypersomnia is denied.,An initial compensable rating of 10 percent, but no higher, for mild neurocognitive disorder is granted.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a TDIU effective February 19, 2014, due to his service-connected disabilities.,Basic eligibility for Chapter 35 DEA benefits was also granted effective February 19, 2014.
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