The Veteran's TDIU claim is granted with an effective date of April 24, 2008. This was the earliest date that his disability became factually ascertainable for TDIU purposes.
The deciding factor: TDIU became factually ascertainable on April 24, 2008, when VA determined the Veteran to be unemployable based on his service-connected disabilities and the combined rating of 70 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral peripheral vascular disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- July 21, 2016
- Citation
- 1629051
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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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral claw foot, tinea unguium, and peripheral vascular disease.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for hypertension and service connection for bilateral peripheral vascular disease, to include as due to herbicide agent exposure and/or secondary to a service-connected disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the veteran's claims for service connection for various disabilities, including left eye cataract, heart disability, hypertension, bilateral peripheral vascular disease, diabetes, and bilateral hand disability (neuropathy and/or carpal tunnel syndrome), due to duty-to-assist errors.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal was dismissed due to his death, and no service connection decisions were made.
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