The Board has determined that the veteran's combined service-connected disabilities meet the criteria for a TDIU, granting his claim.
The deciding factor: The VA physician found that the veteran's unemployability is primarily due to his service-connected left lower extremity disabilities and above-knee amputation, which rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Surgical fusion, left ankle and left subtalar joint, Sciatic neuropathy, left lower extremity, Osteoarthritis, left knee, Scars, surgical, left leg, ankle and dorsum of left foot, Disuse, muscular wasting, muscles of left thigh and calf, Degenerative joint disease, right knee (status-post total knee arthroplasty), Degenerative changes, lumbar spine (associated with surgical fusion)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0406525
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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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