The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for a left shoulder disability, psychiatric disability (anxiety), and plantar fasciitis due to procedural errors in the filing of the Veteran's notices of disagreement and concurrent elections.
The deciding factor: The March 2022 notice of disagreement was not timely filed with respect to the issues of entitlement to service connection for a left shoulder disability and anxiety, and the Veteran made an impermissible concurrent election for both a Higher-Level Review and a Board appeal for the issue of entitlement to service connection for plantar fasciitis.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder disability, psychiatric disability (anxiety), plantar fasciitis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25050916
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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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