The Board denied the veteran's claims for a higher disability rating and an earlier effective date, as well as remanded her claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support that it was factually ascertainable that the Veteran's coccyx fracture first worsened within the one-year period prior to the February 2020 claim for increase, and thus an earlier effective date was denied. The disability picture more nearly approximated the schedular criteria for the maximum 10 percent rating already assigned.
- Claimed conditions
- fractured coccyx
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2025
- Citation
- A25009203
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