The Veteran was granted a separate 10 percent rating for metatarsalgia, but no higher ratings were assigned for the bilateral pes planus.
The deciding factor: The severity of the Veteran's foot conditions did not meet the criteria for higher ratings under the applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral flat feet, Metatarsalgia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 10, 2009
- Citation
- 0904825
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,419 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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