The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for minimal osteoarthritis, right knee with stress fracture and assigned initial ratings of 10 percent prior to April 4, 2005 and 20 percent as of that date.
The deciding factor: The VA examination reports and other medical records provided sufficient evidence to support the initial evaluations assigned for the veteran's service-connected right knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- minimal osteoarthritis, right knee, stress fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 9, 2008
- Citation
- 0822873
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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