The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including prostate cancer, bilateral hearing loss disability, tinnitus, and erectile dysfunction associated with prostate cancer, are sufficient to render him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that the Veteran's service-connected conditions alone are sufficiently severe to render him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer, bilateral hearing loss disability, tinnitus, erectile dysfunction associated with prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- May 26, 2010
- Citation
- 1019570
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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.
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