The veteran's service-connected disabilities are sufficiently disabling to prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted his claim for a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected conditions preclude him from engaging in substantial gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left knee injury with internal derangement, arthritis of the left knee, right knee strain with degenerative changes, lateral instability of the right knee, corneal scars of the right eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- May 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0512841
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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 appeal regarding the rating reductions for lateral instability of the right knee and osteoarthritis of the right knee, so these issues are dismissed.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for arthritis of the right and left knees, finding that it is at least as likely as not that these conditions developed due to the Veteran's active military service.,No new evidence or exposure basis was provided in this decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for left and right knee strain with degenerative changes and instability due to incomplete records from Wadley Regional Medical Center.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for chondromalacia patella, patellofemoral crepitus, and arthritis of the left knee. Service connection for a left knee meniscal tear is denied.
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