The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected right eye aphakia warrants a disability rating of 30 percent, which is the minimum rating for blindness in one eye. The veteran also meets the criteria for SMC based on loss of use of his right eye.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence consistently shows the veteran has severe visual impairment in his right eye, meeting the criteria for a disability rating of 30 percent under Diagnostic Code 6029 and for an award of SMC at the 'k' rate due to blindness in one eye.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Eye Aphakia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0617725
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