The appeal as to entitlement to service connection for tuberculosis exposure is dismissed due to an untimely Notice of Disagreement.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's December 2023 NOD was untimely as it did not address the November 1988 denial of service connection for tuberculosis within one year, and there has been no other appealable decision addressing this claim.
- Claimed conditions
- tuberculosis exposure, left leg pain, right leg pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25046486
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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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