The Board dismissed the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection for right ankle disability, lower right extremity neuropathy, and residual right ankle scar.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's freestanding earlier effective date claims related to the grants of service connection are improper as they lack legal merit.
- Claimed conditions
- right ankle disability (claimed as chronic right ankle sprain status post Chrisman-Snook procedure), lower right extremity neuropathy, residual right ankle scar status post Chrisman-Snook procedure
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25048431
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Decisions by this judge: 1,913 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including diabetes mellitus, heart disorder, respiratory disorder, and neuropathy of the extremities, have been denied as there is no current disability or evidence linking these conditions to service.
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