The veteran's service-connected disabilities, when considered together, are severe enough to prevent him from obtaining or retaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The combined disability rating of 80% renders the veteran unable to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- enucleation of the right eye, migraine headaches, recurrent right shoulder instability, depressive disorder, patellofemoral syndrome, both knees, tinnitus, ganglion cyst of the right wrist, lumbar strain, pseudofolliculitis barbae
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- July 17, 2002
- Citation
- 0207978
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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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