The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including mood disorder with depressive features and left total knee replacement with mild peripheral sensory neuropathy, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation. The Board has granted entitlement to TDIU on a schedular basis.
The deciding factor: VA examiners concluded that the Veteran's service-connected right knee and mood disabilities did not render him unemployable, but noted potential physical conditions affecting his ability to maintain full-time employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Mood disorder with depressive features, Left total knee replacement with mild peripheral sensory neuropathy, Degenerative joint disease of the right knee with limitation of motion (extension), Diabetes mellitus, Right sacroiliitis, Right knee instability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- March 2, 2017
- Citation
- 1706434
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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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