The Veteran's genital herpes disability is rated at the highest schedular rating available, a 60 percent rating, since October 29, 2010.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s genital herpes disability manifested with outbreaks every month to every other month that required constant or near-constant use of systemic therapeutic treatment, warranting a 60 percent disability rating under the schedule of ratings for the skin.
- Claimed conditions
- Genital Herpes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 23, 2020
- Citation
- 20074825
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal regarding entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for service-connected asthma was dismissed, while a 30 percent disability rating was granted for genital herpes and the claim for a compensable rating for vocal cord polyp was denied.
- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD due to an inadequate medical opinion.
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