The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including psychoneurosis, anxiety with headaches, and residuals of frozen feet, render him unemployable.
The deciding factor: The combined effect of the veteran's service-connected disabilities on his physical and mental capabilities renders him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- psychoneurosis, anxiety with headaches, residuals, frozen right foot, residuals, frozen left foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 4, 2006
- Citation
- 0600104
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
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