The Board has restored the veteran's prior 60% disability rating for his service-connected total left knee replacement, effective from December 23, 1997.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on a finding that the RO failed to follow proper procedures in reducing the veteran's disability rating and thus voided the reduction as not in accordance with law.
- Claimed conditions
- Total left knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- December 28, 2004
- Citation
- 0434089
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including bilateral hearing loss, total right and left knee replacements, tinnitus, degenerative disc disease with spinal fusion complications, painful middle back scar, and scars of the knees, have prevented him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation. A TDIU is granted.
- Granted
The Veteran's total left knee replacement is rated at 60 percent, the maximum schedular rating. SMC at the housebound rate is granted from September 29, 2010 to November 1, 2011.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for the Veteran's total left knee replacement, finding that it resulted in at most intermediate degrees of residual weakness, pain, or limitation of motion.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for the Veteran's total left and right knee replacements, finding that they resulted in at most intermediate degrees of residual weakness, pain, or limitation of motion.
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