The Board denied the veteran's claim for an effective date earlier than August 31, 2001 for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to lack of evidence showing that his service-connected disabilities alone precluded him from engaging in substantially gainful employment during the year prior to August 31, 2001.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show that the veteran's service-connected disabilities alone rendered him unable to engage in substantially gainful employment during the year prior to his claim for TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- duodenal ulcer with antrectomy, vagotomy, billroth II with reflux gastritis, hiatal hernia and esophagus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2007
- Citation
- 0738946
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- Granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's previously denied claim of service connection for gastritis (claimed as gastroenterotomy and vagotomy) due to new evidence. The claim is now granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to the need to verify his claimed period of service and obtain his service medical records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including notifying the Veteran of his right to submit alternate sources of evidence in support of his previously denied claim for service connection for a low back disorder and claims for service connection for a renal disorder (originally claimed as chronic nephritis) and vagotomy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's claim for an increased rating of his service-connected subtotal gastrectomy and vagotomy is being remanded due to the need for additional medical records, including those related to anemia.
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