The Board has restored a 20 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected bilateral dry eyes, effective from the date of reduction.
The deciding factor: The decision upholds the original service connection and assigns a compensable rating based on the current medical evidence without finding any clear and unmistakable error in the previous reduction.
- Claimed conditions
- dry eyes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- November 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19186046
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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- Granted
The Board granted an initial 20 percent rating for service-connected dry eyes from August 10, 2022.
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