The Veteran's appeals for earlier effective dates and a higher disability rating were dismissed due to concurrent elections.
The deciding factor: The appeal was erroneously docketed due to concurrent elections prohibited under the AMA, leading to dismissal of all issues addressed in the August 31, 2024, rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- scar (residual of cesarean), scars to abdomen status post hysterectomy, status post total hysterectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2026
- Citation
- A26005680
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 25, 2023 for the award of service connection and special monthly compensation based on anatomical loss of a creative organ, but denied an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for status post total hysterectomy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient evidence regarding whether the Veteran's uterine fibroids were aggravated by her third period of service from April 2014 to July 2014.
- Granted
The Board finds that the Veteran's gynecological disorder, including scarring fibroid tumors and status post total hysterectomy, was incurred in service due to a pre-existing condition.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for chronic endometriosis and status post total hysterectomy, finding new evidence sufficient to reopen the case. The claim is granted as the disability is due to a pre-existing condition aggravated by active service.
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