The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are of such severity that they preclude substantially gainful employment, warranting a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The combined disability rating is 70 percent from July 22, 2003, and the Veteran is entitled to special monthly compensation based on the loss of use of a creative organ. The evidence supports that his service-connected disabilities make him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), kidney disease associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, with erectile dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, type II, with erectile dysfunction, tinea pedis with hyperkeratosis of the feet, shell fragment wound residuals of the right knee with retained foreign body, shell fragment wound scar of the left hand, atherosclerotic heart disease associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, with erectile dysfunction, bilateral hearing loss, tympanoplasty of the left ear, shell fragment wound scar of the right lower thigh, punctate wound scar of the right lower forearm, erectile dysfunction associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, with erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- September 30, 2016
- Citation
- 1639204
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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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