Service connection for urinary stress incontinence is granted. The Veteran's condition is considered related to her service.
The deciding factor: The most persuasive evidence does not weigh against finding that the Veteran's urinary stress incontinence is a result of service or etiologically related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- urinary stress incontinence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25002934
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,170 · Granted: 38% (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 grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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