The Board of Veterans' Appeals has determined that the veteran's service-connected bilateral trench foot warrants a 30 percent evaluation, effective from October 1945. The RO will conduct further development and re-adjudicate the claim.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence linking the degenerative arthritic changes in both feet to the service-connected bilateral trench foot.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral trench foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 10, 2001
- Citation
- 0100571
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