The veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities was granted with an effective date of May 17, 1996. The appeal also included a request for service connection for post-traumatic arthritis of the spine, which was denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities was granted with an effective date of May 17, 1996, as he provided evidence showing his inability to work since March 29, 1996, related to his service-connected back condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative disc herniation of L5-S1, Left knee instability, Right patella chondromalacia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 16, 2001
- Citation
- 0120946
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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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