The Board granted an effective date of March 2, 2007, for the grant of service connection for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy and November 26, 2014, for COPD, emphysema, and asthma. The claims for earlier effective dates were denied.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence did not support an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for diabetes mellitus type II, loss of use of the right hand, painful right wrist scar, or right wrist scar, as these conditions were not shown to have manifested within one year of separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus type II, left lower extremity radiculopathy, right lower extremity radiculopathy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and asthma, loss of use of the right hand, painful right wrist scar, right wrist scar, housebound status
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108352
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