The Board granted the appeal seeking to establish that the bilateral factor was not correctly applied in calculating the Veteran's combined disability rating, resulting in a combined rating of 50 percent effective November 30, 2017.
The deciding factor: The calculation did not take into account the Veteran's painful scars of the right foot associated with right ankle osteoarthritis in the bilateral factor computation.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25111179
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 931 · Granted: 42% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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