The Veteran's bilateral foot disabilities are found to be at least as functionally impaired, if not worse, than a person who has adequately functioning prosthetic devices following amputation at the ankle level. As such, he is granted a 100 percent disability rating for loss of use of both feet.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's bilateral foot disabilities render him equally or more impaired than someone with an amputated limb and suitable prosthetics.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of use of both feet, bilateral lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 12, 2020
- Citation
- 20053633
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