The veteran's combined service-connected disabilities, which include multiple knee and hip injuries along with arthritis and anxiety/depression, render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted a TDIU based on these conditions.
The deciding factor: The veteran's nine service-connected physical and mental conditions share a common etiology resulting in single combined 70% evaluation, meeting the criteria for a TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right knee injury with tear to both anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, multiple loose bodies in left knee, tronchanteric bursitis of right hip, tronchanteric bursitis of left hip, chronic left ankle disability, degenerative joint disease of left knee, degenerative joint disease of right knee, arthralgia of lumbosacral spine, depression with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- December 10, 2004
- Citation
- 0432804
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What this means for you
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied a compensable disability rating for bilateral hearing loss and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to lack of evidence showing an increase in the severity of the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss during the appeal period, and insufficient evidence to support a finding that his service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
- Partly granted
The veteran was granted a separate disability rating of 20 percent for left knee meniscal tear from October 28, 2021. Other claims were denied.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depression with anxiety and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), based on new evidence submitted within the appeal period.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), was dismissed as it was duplicative of a separate appeal.
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