The Veteran's service-connected fractured right middle and ring fingers and left hand scar have been granted, but the initial ratings assigned are noncompensable.
The deciding factor: VA examinations did not find ankylosis or other disabling conditions that would warrant a compensable rating for either disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Fractured right middle and ring fingers, Left hand scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- December 16, 2014
- Citation
- 1455230
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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.
What you can do next
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- Denied
The Board denied all initial disability ratings for the veteran's low back, left foot, left little finger, right wrist, tinnitus, and scars disabilities, except for a separate 10 percent evaluation for a painful scar of the back.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for allergic rhinitis, bilateral ankle disabilities, hypertension, left knee disability, right little finger disability, and left hand scar as the evidence did not support a higher rating under applicable criteria.
- Granted
The Veteran is entitled to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities as of December 22, 2017.
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