The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy of the lower and upper extremities, glaucoma, and residuals of a right hand fracture, render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted his claim for TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are sufficient to produce unemployability without regard to advancing age.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), diabetes, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity, nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy of the right eye and glaucoma and cataracts of both eyes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- March 31, 2010
- Citation
- 1012035
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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.
What you can do next
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