The Board denied the veteran's claim for an increased evaluation for his eye disability and service connection for photophobia. The current rating of 20 percent is appropriate based on the visual acuity impairment, but not higher.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not demonstrate a level of visual acuity that would warrant a higher than 20 percent rating under applicable VA rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- shrapnel injury with scars, bilateral eyelids and bridge of nose, bilateral corneal foreign body scars, retained corneal, scleral and anterior chamber angle foreign bodies, left eye, peripheral cortical cataract, left eye, glaucoma, left eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 26, 2007
- Citation
- 0702463
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