Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date prior to September 30, 2021, for a 100 percent disability rating for loss of use of bilateral feet was dismissed.
The deciding factor: There was no clear and unmistakable error in the August 5, 2022, rating decision that confirmed the effective date of September 30, 2021, and the Veteran did not file a request for higher-level review or appeal within one year of this decision.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of use of bilateral feet (previously rated separately as left and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, with radiculopathy, and bilateral pes planus, with plantar fasciitis)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25087748
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