The Board granted an effective date of November 4, 2020, for the assignment of a 20 percent rating for left lower extremity (LLE) radiculopathy and March 24, 2021, for the right lower extremity (RLE) radiculopathy.
The deciding factor: The Board resolved reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran, finding that his LLE and RLE radiculopathies were of moderate severity as of their respective effective dates.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Lower Extremity (LLE) Radiculopathy, Right Lower Extremity (RLE) Radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25039232
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 Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for increased evaluations of service-connected bilateral hearing loss and bilateral lower extremities radiculopathy disabilities due to untimely filings or concurrent elections.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 10 percent for left lower extremity radiculopathy and idiopathic peripheral autonomic neuropathy prior to February 11, 2021.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 40 percent, but no higher, for right lower extremity (RLE) radiculopathy beginning June 7, 2023, while denying increased ratings prior to April 23, 2019, and from April 23, 2019, to June 6, 2023.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of June 15, 2015 for the award of a 20 percent evaluation for both left and right lower extremity radiculopathy.
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