The Board denied an initial disability rating greater than 30 percent for kidney removal and denied an earlier effective date prior to August 18, 2020, for the grant of service connection for kidney removal.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a higher rating or an earlier effective date as required by the applicable criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- kidney removal
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25049556
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 907 · Granted: 35% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
Your claim for service connection for kidney removal has been granted in a previous rating decision, and the issue is now moot.
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