The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including low back strain, hypertension, and residuals of a stroke with dysarthria, are found to be so severe that they prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, standing alone, are of sufficient severity to preclude his ability to engage in substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back strain, Hypertension (HTN), Residuals of a concussion with headaches, Residuals of a stroke with residual dysarthria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- April 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0111274
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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.
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