The Board finds that the veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unemployable and grants a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including chronic lumbar strain with degenerative disc and joint disease, residuals of right medial femoral condyle injury, left ankle injury, fracture of the right fifth metatarsal and cuboid, neuritis of the right foot, and residuals of left elbow blunt trauma with psychophysiologic pain reaction, render him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lumbar strain with degenerative disc and joint disease, residuals of a right medial femoral condyle injury, residuals of a left ankle injury, residuals of a fracture of the right fifth metatarsal and cuboid, neuritis of the right foot, residuals of left elbow blunt trauma with psychophysiologic pain reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 9, 2006
- Citation
- 0600717
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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment, and thus denied his claim for TDIU.
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