Granted
The Veteran was granted a 10 percent rating for his right eye disability effective February 22, 2022.
The deciding factor: The most competent and credible evidence establishes that the Veteran's service-connected unilateral retinopathy manifests in a visual constriction with an average contraction of a visual field of 30 degrees or less, but never less than 16 degrees.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with bilateral cataracts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25105772
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