The Board granted an initial 30 percent evaluation for the Veteran's service-connected chronic urticaria.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's condition required second-line treatment (corticosteroids) for control, warranting a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 7825.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic urticaria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25032763
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew all claims on appeal, and the Board dismissed the appeal.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that the evidence did not support higher ratings or service connection for any of the conditions appealed.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to a rating in excess of 10 percent for chronic urticaria for the period prior to August 4, 2014, due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Partly granted
The Board granted initial 10 percent ratings for chronic urticaria, stomach scar, right shin splints, left shin splints, right knee strain, and left knee strain. The claim for an initial compensable rating for esophageal stricture was denied.
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