The veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis and asbestosis has been granted.
The deciding factor: VA medical opinions established that the veteran is unable to engage in substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary tuberculosis, asbestosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- February 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0004543
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding that his service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis was at least as likely as not a contributory cause of his death.
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