The veteran's service-connected foot fungus and plantar warts are each granted a 10 percent evaluation, but the appeal for a combined rating based on multiple noncompensable disabilities is dismissed as moot due to the individual grant of ratings.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supported the need for compensable evaluations for both conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Foot Fungus, Plantar Warts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0021330
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's plantar warts disability, affecting the soles of both feet, has resulted in chronic pain that is commensurate with a 20 percent disability rating under DC 7804. The criteria for a higher rating have been met.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD, IHD, plantar warts, lumbar and cervical spine DJD, hip and shoulder DJD, preclude him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling VA examinations.
- Granted
The Veteran's plantar warts are manifested by symptoms that are analogous to superficial and painful scarring. A 10 percent rating is assigned for this condition.
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