The petition to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability is granted. Entitlement to service connection for vision loss is denied, and the effective date prior to February 22, 2016, for the assignment of a 50 percent rating for bilateral congenital pes planus is denied.

The deciding factor: The Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for an acquired psychiatric disability was granted due to new evidence submitted since the last final denial. However, service connection for vision loss and an earlier effective date for the 50% rating for bilateral congenital pes planus were not granted as there is no factual basis to support these claims.

Claimed conditions

{"condition_name":"Acquired psychiatric disability"}, {"condition_name":"Vision Disability"}

How they argued it

Not specified

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

June 18, 2019

Citation

19147020

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