The veteran's appeal is about his service-connected right and left foot disabilities, specifically the ratings for these conditions. The RO failed to properly separate the evaluations of the right ankle disability from the right foot disability, and the left ankle disability from the left foot disability as instructed in a previous remand.
The deciding factor: The RO did not comply with the Board's instructions to separately rate the service-connected right ankle disability from the service-connected right foot disability, and to separately rate the service-connected left ankle disability from the service-connected left foot disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right ankle fracture, status post open reduction and internal fixation, left hallux fracture, status post open reduction and internal fixation, and arthroplasty resection of the second and third toes with deformity and fixation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2002
- Citation
- 0201065
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What this means for you
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