Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date of September 26, 2023, was dismissed as moot because the benefit sought had already been granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's continuous pursuit of the initial lumbosacral strain rating claim and the subsequent grants of service connection for bilateral radiculopathies and DEA were deemed to have established entitlement from September 26, 2023.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain vertebral fracture with degenerative arthritis and IVDS, left lower extremity radiculopathy, right lower extremity radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100546
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