Granted
The Board granted an effective date of June 1, 2016, for the award of service connection for diabetic peripheral neuropathy in all extremities.
The deciding factor: The VA treatment records from January 2017, March 2017, and June 2017 were found to be new and material evidence received within one year of the September 2016 Rating Decision, keeping the Veteran's June 2016 Neuropathy Claims 'pending through the present.'
- Claimed conditions
- right sciatic nerve diabetic peripheral neuropathy, right femoral nerve diabetic peripheral neuropathy, left sciatic nerve diabetic peripheral neuropathy, left femoral nerve diabetic peripheral neuropathy, right upper extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, left upper extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100527
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