The Board denied the Veteran's request for an increased rating for her lower abdominal residual scar and upheld the reduction from a 20% to a 10% disability rating. The Veteran was not granted any increase in her current rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not meet the criteria for a higher rating as she does not have three or four painful or unstable scars, only one painful scar.
- Claimed conditions
- lower abdominal residual scar, left breast scar, right breast scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19100168
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,455 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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