The Board has determined that the December 1965 rating decision, which reduced the veteran's pilonidal sinus disability rating from 10% to 0%, contains an error. The effective date for a compensable (10%) rating is now March 1, 1966.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the December 1965 decision contained an error in applying the correct statutory and regulatory provisions at the time of the decision, which would have resulted in a different outcome if correctly applied.
- Claimed conditions
- pilonidal sinus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0308384
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,440 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Denied
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