The VA has determined that the veteran is individually unemployable due to service-connected lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and right foot drop, and granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: VA found that the veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease, right foot drop
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 2, 2004
- Citation
- 0405641
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for increased initial ratings and service connection, effective November 18, 2019.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding no evidence of current conditions or residuals that would warrant higher ratings.
- Denied
The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's lumbosacral strain, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood chronic, sleepwalker disorder, and lower lumbar extremity radiculopathies. The claims for service connection for PTSD, erectile dysfunction, obstructive sleep apnea, and a TDIU were remanded.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease was granted a rating of 40 percent on and after August 11, 2018.
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