The Board found that the withholding of VA disability compensation to recoup disability severance pay for uterine fibroid with menorrhagia was improper as it was not the same condition upon which the severance pay was granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's uterine fibroid with menorrhagia did not meet the criteria for service connection due to being a different disability from that covered by the severance pay.
- Claimed conditions
- uterine fibroid with menorrhagia, membranous glomerulonephritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 12, 2026
- Citation
- A26013389
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