The veteran is unable to obtain or maintain any form of substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and occupational background due to the effects of his service-connected disabilities, which are currently assigned a combined rating of 80 percent.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including disc disease of the lumbosacral spine, anxiety disorder, neuropathy of the right foot, bilateral hearing loss disability, tinnitus, coccygodnia, and residuals of a shrapnel wound of the right knee, render him incapable of securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2008
- Citation
- 0810414
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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