Granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates of July 22, 2021, for the awards of service connection for urinary incontinence and bowel incontinence.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran had urinary incontinence and bowel incontinence, as complications of his service-connected lumbar spine disability, at the time his July 22, 2021 claim was received by VA.
- Claimed conditions
- Urinary incontinence, Bowel incontinence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25088582
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