The Board denied entitlement to an extraschedular rating in excess of 40 percent for numbness and tingling of the right upper extremity and left upper extremity, finding that the symptoms were fully contemplated by the applicable rating criteria.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms are either explicitly contemplated by the rating schedule or within the governing norms and do not present an exceptional disability picture.
- Claimed conditions
- Numbness and tingling of the right upper extremity, Numbness and tingling of the left upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19131677
What this means for you
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