The appeal for an earlier effective date for the 20 percent rating assigned for bilateral epididymal cysts was dismissed.
The deciding factor: The May 2024 rating decision was a purely ministerial implementation of the Board's May 2024 decision, and the Veteran cannot challenge the merits of a Board decision by expressing disagreement with an AOJ's implementing rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral epididymal cysts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25036635
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,240 · Granted: 28% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
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- Partly granted
The Veteran's claim for a compensable disability rating for bilateral epididymal cysts was denied. Service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, including PTSD and depression, was granted. The claim for service connection for infertility/erectile dysfunction as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected back disability was denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a genitourinary disability, other than service-connected circumcision with erectile dysfunction and service-connected penile rash. The appeal is remanded due to conflicting medical opinions regarding the cause of the Veteran's current conditions.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected back and shoulder disabilities were of sufficient severity to preclude substantially gainful employment from July 2, 2010 to February 27, 2014. The Board granted a TDIU for this period.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including a back disability, right shoulder disability, bilateral epididymal cysts, left shoulder impingement syndrome, and chronic maxillary sinusitis/rhinitis, did not render him unemployable during the period from July 2, 2010 to February 27, 2014. The Board found that his education, past work experience, and functional impairment caused by these disabilities were not sufficient to prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
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