The Veteran's service-connected PTSD and other disabilities have combined to meet the criteria for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: PTSD is shown to cause severe impairment that prevents the Veteran from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1008308
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What this means for you
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