Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for a back disorder related to the October 2022 decision has been dismissed due to untimeliness of the appeal.
The deciding factor: The one-year period in which a claimant can initiate a review of the October 2022 decision expired prior to submission of the October 2023 Notice of Disagreement and no good cause for the delay was established.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090823
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