The Veteran's pes planus is service-connected and rated at 10 percent, effective October 21, 2004. The Board has granted service connection for this condition on a secondary basis due to aggravation by his service-connected low back and bilateral knee disabilities.,The Veteran meets the schedular requirements for a TDIU rating based on his combined 80 percent disability rating from his psychiatric, low back, and bilateral knee conditions. The Board has granted a TDIU rating in this case.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's pes planus is service-connected due to aggravation by his service-connected low back and bilateral knee disabilities.,The Veteran meets the schedular requirements for a TDIU rating based on his combined 80 percent disability rating from his psychiatric, low back, and bilateral knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- neck disability, pes planus, lupus, right knee degenerative joint disease (DJD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 3, 2016
- Citation
- 1617856
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