The Veteran's service-connected low back disability renders him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board has granted TDIU.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's service-connected low back disability renders him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine status post laminectomy, Peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 27, 2015
- Citation
- 1513335
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