The Board granted a rating of 10 percent for right foot plantar warts, effective February 6, 2006.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's right foot plantar warts have been painful and most closely approximated the criteria for one or two painful scars throughout the period on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot plantar warts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- 25013932
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,135 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings and service connection were dismissed. The Board found that the Veteran withdrew his appeal as to the issues of entitlement to increased disability ratings for left foot metatarsalgia, tinnitus, left wrist disability, right foot plantar warts, and for service connection for right foot plantar warts at a September 2024 hearing. Service connection was granted for migraines.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and increased ratings, as well as service connection for rhinitis, higher ratings for lumbar spine disability and left lower extremity radiculopathy, and a TDIU.
- Granted
The veteran's effective date for TDIU and DEA benefits is granted as of January 8, 2020.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of plantar warts, and therefore service connection for this condition is denied. The remaining claims are remanded due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the nature and etiology of various conditions.
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