Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 10, 2026

Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief last revised: Jan 30, 2026
§ 4.21 - Application of rating schedule.

In view of the number of atypical instances it is not expected, especially with the more fully described grades of disabilities, that all cases will show all the findings specified. Findings sufficiently characteristic to identify the disease and the disability therefrom, and above all, coordination of rating with impairment of function will, however, be expected in all instances.

[41 FR 11293, Mar. 18, 1976]
authority: 38 U.S.C. 1155,unless
source: 29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 38 CFR 4.21