The appeal for a rating in excess of 20 percent for service-connected degenerative arthritis of the spine with IVDS is dismissed as it has been subsumed by a previous remand.
The deciding factor: The Board already decided the claim on June 1, 2025, and the present appeal is dismissed as moot.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of the spine with intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25057817
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,088 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development due to the need for additional medical opinions regarding the effects of medications on the Veteran's service-connected back disability.
- Granted
The Board granted a total disability rating for individual unemployability on an extraschedular basis and an effective date of September 17, 2017, for DEA benefits.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for further development to ensure compliance with previous remand directives.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed disabilities, including degenerative arthritis of the spine with IVDS, right knee disability, and left knee disability, do not meet or approximate the criteria for service connection as they are not shown to have begun during active duty or be related to any in-service injury or disease.
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