The Veteran's service-connected bilateral plantar fasciitis with degenerative arthritis is currently rated at 10 percent, the minimum rating for a moderate disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows no more than a moderate disability with pain on manipulation and use of the feet, without swelling, inflammation, tenderness, or loss of motion.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral plantar fasciitis with degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 24, 2017
- Citation
- 1718246
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected conditions have rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation, leading to the grant of TDIU.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's claim for a TDIU due to service-connected bilateral plantar fasciitis with degenerative arthritis as moot, given that he has already been awarded a 100% combined schedular rating.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 50% rating for bilateral pes planus prior to April 12, 2021 and denied a higher rating from that date. It also granted an initial 30% rating for bilateral plantar fasciitis with degenerative arthritis.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection of various conditions as they have already been granted in a previous rating decision.
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