The Veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the schedular percentage requirements for TDIU, and the Board finds that he is unable to secure or maintain any substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners concluded that the Veteran's PTSD severely impaired his ability to work cooperatively and effectively with co-workers, supervisors, and the public. His physical disabilities also prevented him from performing physical labor requiring prolonged heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, degenerative disc disease lumbar spine, chronic left shoulder subluxation with impingement syndrome and traumatic arthritis, diabetes mellitus, type II, radiculopathy left lower extremity associated with DDD lumbar spine, radiculopathy right lower extremity associated with DDD lumbar spine, sarcoidosis (asymptomatic), nephropathy associated with diabetes mellitus, type II
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2014
- Citation
- 1454269
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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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- Granted
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder has been dismissed as the appellant requested withdrawal of the appeal.
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