The Board has granted an effective date of September 9, 2003 for the grant of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation as of September 9, 2003.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity disability, chronic low back strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 8, 2003
- Citation
- 0319599
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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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