[2024] UKUT 78 (AAC)

On 17 July 2007, the Appellant submitted a claim (dated 26 June 2007) under the war pensions scheme for two conditions, namely lower back pain and rectal polyp. On 7 February 2008, the Secretary of State accepted that both conditions were attributable to service and assessed the accepted conditions at 1-5%. The Appellant did not appeal that assessment at the time.

Since then, the Appellant has submitted further claims for other conditions he claims were caused by service. Several of these, but not all of them, have been accepted as attributable to service. The conditions accepted are listed in the Table below. The effective dates of acceptance are noted, so far as they are evident from the papers.

The Appellant’s (current) aggregate interim assessment for all these accepted conditions is 70%. There have also been two further accepted conditions accepted as attributable to service, namely degeneration right knee and bilateral osteoarthritis hips.