Good Afternoon,
Got a couple VA ratings I am trying get percentages to. My grandfather is a retired USAF SMst during Vietnam. He won his appeal with the VA over diabetes being service connect due to Agent Orange exposure recently but was awarded 40% so 10% short of receiving any back pay. We are arguing that his 20% diabetes rating should be 40% and that with his neuropathy in his feet would push him over the 50% but he also had a detached retina due to retinopathy that is caused because of diabetes. My question, is there a rating for retinopathy or detached retina? In the CFR I cannot find a rating schedule for those conditions or better yet does anybody have a rating for these conditions as secondary to diabetes?
Thanks
Got a couple VA ratings I am trying get percentages to. My grandfather is a retired USAF SMst during Vietnam. He won his appeal with the VA over diabetes being service connect due to Agent Orange exposure recently but was awarded 40% so 10% short of receiving any back pay. We are arguing that his 20% diabetes rating should be 40% and that with his neuropathy in his feet would push him over the 50% but he also had a detached retina due to retinopathy that is caused because of diabetes. My question, is there a rating for retinopathy or detached retina? In the CFR I cannot find a rating schedule for those conditions or better yet does anybody have a rating for these conditions as secondary to diabetes?
Thanks