The veteran is currently shown to be unemployable due to service-connected disabilities, and a total rating based on individual employability due to service-connected disabilities is granted.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the percentage requirements for a total disability rating based on individual employability.
- Claimed conditions
- skull defect, residual, fracture second cervical vertebra, fractures, left distal tibia and fibula, healed scars, face, deviation, nasal septum, traumatic, anosmia, brain disorder, fracture, right distal fifth metacarpal
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- April 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0410113
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for anosmia, bilateral hearing loss, and sinusitis as there was no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the claims. The claim for hypertension was remanded for further development.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew his appeal for all service connection and initial rating issues, thus the Board has no jurisdiction to review these appeals.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for anosmia and chronic sinusitis, as well as a claim for total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an addendum medical opinion that fully considers the combined effects of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including any side effects from medications.
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