The veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board has granted a total rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's combined disability rating exceeds 70% due to his service-connected conditions, which meet the criteria for TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- post-operative residuals of right knee arthroplasty times three, shell fragment wound of the right thigh, bursitis of the left hip, osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- March 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0305583
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for increased ratings and service connection, finding no persuasive evidence that the criteria for increased evaluations were met prior to the respective claim or examination dates.
- Partly granted
The appeal resulted in the denial of increased ratings for left hip bursitis and a noncompensable rating, but granted individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection and a compensable evaluation, resulting in the dismissal of all claims.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bursitis of the right and left hips as secondary to their respective total hip replacements, but remanded the claims for increased ratings.
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