The Board of Veterans' Appeals has denied the veteran's claim for a permanent and total disability evaluation for pension purposes due to his nonservice-connected disabilities, as they do not render him unemployable.
The deciding factor: The combined rating assigned to the veteran's non-service connected disabilities is 20 percent, which does not meet the required threshold for a permanent and total disability evaluation under any analysis (schedular or extra-schedular).
- Claimed conditions
- gastrointestinal reflux disease, deviated nasal septum, colon polyps
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- September 26, 2001
- Citation
- 0123412
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for somatic symptom disorder, respiratory disorders (including COPD), nephrolithiasis, deviated nasal septum, and higher initial disability ratings for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress and GERD, hiatal hernia, reflux esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus.
- Denied
The Veteran was awarded service connection for allergic rhinitis based on the PACT Act, but an earlier effective date prior to August 10, 2022, is not warranted.
- Dismissed
The Veteran has withdrawn the appeal for service connection and higher ratings, requesting to submit supplemental claims instead.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sinusitis and remanded the claims for a bilateral hand condition, bilateral knee condition, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
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