Dismissed
The appeal seeking entitlement to service connection for an ascending aortic aneurysm was dismissed due to untimely Board Appeal requests.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not timely file a Board Appeal request or Substantive Appeal with respect to the Statement of the Case issued on October 30, 2019, which denied service connection for an ascending aortic aneurysm, and this claims-processing defect has not been waived by VA.
- Claimed conditions
- ascending aortic aneurysm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25104797
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