The Veteran meets the rating criteria for a TDIU and the Board finds that his service-connected disabilities, including PTSD, bilateral hearing loss, cold injury residuals, and tinnitus, prevent him from securing and maintaining gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's memory impairment due to age-related early dementia is an obstacle to work, but his service-connected disabilities themselves are sufficient to prevent him from securing and maintaining gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Bilateral Hearing Loss, Residuals of Cold Injury to Right Lower Extremity, Residuals of Cold Injury to Left Lower Extremity, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- May 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1017466
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD, finding the appellant's symptoms did not more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD due to an inadequate medical opinion.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 70 percent for PTSD and a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) based on the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for depressive disorder as secondary to hypertension and tinnitus, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and an increased rating for hypertension.
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