The Board granted an initial disability rating of 40 percent for hepatitis B, but not higher.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of daily fatigue, malaise, and anorexia with minor weight loss aligned with the criteria for a 40 percent rating under the pre-amended rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- hepatitis B
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- June 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25051064
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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a neck disability, back disability, GERD, hepatitis B, atopic dermatitis, and OSA. Tinnitus was denied.
- Dismissed
The Board denied the veteran's requests for extensions of time to file appeals regarding rating decisions that denied service connection for hepatitis B and tinnitus, finding no good cause for late filings.
- Dismissed
The appeal for compensation under 38 USC § 1151 for hepatitis B is dismissed as the grant of service connection for hepatitis B (previously rated as hepatitis C) is a greater benefit.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of September 25, 2017, for the award of service connection for hepatitis B but denied an earlier effective date for migraine headaches and a compensable rating for hepatitis B. The claim for a higher rating for migraine headaches was also denied.
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