The Board has determined that an effective date prior to November 13, 2006, for the award of a 20 percent rating for left lower extremity disability is not warranted.,An effective date of September 1, 2005, but no earlier, for the award of a 40 percent rating for left upper extremity disability has been granted.,An effective date of February 13, 2006, for the award of a 30 percent rating for psychiatric disability (now characterized as a psychiatric disability) is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected left lower extremity disability was manifested by no more than mild incomplete paralysis of the sciatic nerve prior to November 13, 2006.,It is factually ascertainable that the Veteran’s service-connected left upper extremity disability was manifested by no more than moderate incomplete paralysis of all radicular groups as of September 1, 2005.,The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability (now characterized as a psychiatric disability) was not manifested by symptomatology resulting in occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks within the one year prior to February 13, 2006.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity disability, left upper extremity disability, psychiatric disability (now characterized as a psychiatric disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19148429
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