The Board has granted an initial compensable rating of 10 percent for the veteran's service-connected left buttock scar, finding that the symptoms and findings more closely approximate the next higher disability evaluation.
The deciding factor: The pathology associated with the left buttock scar more closely approximates the rating criteria set forth above, warranting a 10% disability rating since the date of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- left buttock scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 25, 2007
- Citation
- 0715799
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What this means for you
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