The Veteran's right and left foot disabilities, including hammer toes, metatarsalgia, bursitis, and porokeratosis plantar discreta, are rated at 30 percent each. A TDIU is also granted.
The deciding factor: The disability picture associated with the Veteran’s right and left foot conditions more nearly approximates severe symptomatology and impairment so as to warrant a 30 percent rating for each foot.
- Claimed conditions
- hammer toes, metatarsalgia, bursitis, porokeratosis plantar discreta (previously rated as hammer toes, multiple callosities)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19125231
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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- Dismissed
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