The veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability is severe and has prevented him from obtaining substantially gainful employment. The Board finds that the veteran should be awarded TDIU under 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(b) due to his chronic and severe lumbar spine disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability is severe, preventing him from obtaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- post-operative discectomy of the lumbar spine, residual of left knee injury, right hamstring injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0111276
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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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- Granted
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