The veteran's claim for increased rating and total unemployability due to service-connected disabilities has been granted. The left shoulder condition is rated at 40 percent, while the other conditions are also rated appropriately.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected conditions meet the criteria for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected disabilities and the severity of his left shoulder condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a gunshot wound to the left shoulder, Generalized anxiety disorder, Chronic active hepatitis C, Third rib fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0301402
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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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