The Veteran's service-connected TBI residuals warrant a 70 percent rating, and his painful scars of the abdomen and buttocks each warrant a separate 20 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports moderate cognitive impairment from TBI, which warrants a 70 percent rating. The Veteran also has three painful scars that are unstable or painful, qualifying for separate 20 percent ratings under Diagnostic Code 7804.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Painful Scars of Abdomen due to Colostomy, Painful Scar of Bilateral Buttocks
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 27, 2014
- Citation
- 1413031
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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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- Denied
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- Denied
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