The veteran's service-connected lumbar disc disease has progressed to such severity as to preclude substantially gainful employment, warranting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The VA examination and medical opinions established that the veteran's service-connected lumbar disc disease rendered him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar disc disease, scar, right wrist, postoperative
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0634248
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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.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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