The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are of such severity as to render him unemployable without regard to advancing age or the presence of any nonservice-connected disorders. The Board has granted TDIU.
The deciding factor: The combined rating for the Veteran's service-connected disabilities is 90 percent, which meets the criteria for a TDIU based on his education and work experience.
- Claimed conditions
- T11 and T12 compression fracture residuals with lumbar spine intervertebral disc syndrome and degenerative arthritis, right lower extremity radiculopathy with sciatic nerve involvement, left lower extremity radiculopathy with sciatic nerve involvement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- March 23, 2017
- Citation
- 1708999
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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 an effective date of August 26, 2021, for the award of service connection for lumbosacral strain and bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy with sciatic nerve involvement.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 40 percent for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy with sciatic nerve involvement, but remanded several other claims including service connection for a cervical spine condition, upper extremity radiculopathies, hearing loss, thrombocytopenia, and TDIU.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for higher initial ratings for lumbar spine degenerative arthritis with IVDS, right and left lower extremity radiculopathy, and a scar on the lumbar spine.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's left lower extremity radiculopathy with sciatic nerve involvement was reduced from a 20 percent rating to a 10 percent rating, but the Board found this reduction improper and restored the original 20 percent rating.
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