The Board has granted a TDIU effective from April 2, 2008 due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities preventing him from securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including CAD and diabetes mellitus, have rendered him unable to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment for over a year.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease (CAD), pseudophakia in both eyes, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy of left lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of left upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of right upper extremity, voiding dysfunction secondary to diabetes mellitus, erectile dysfunction secondary to diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 23, 2017
- Citation
- 1709022
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, ischemic heart disease, right lower extremity peripheral artery disease, left lower extremity peripheral artery disease, and hypertension as the evidence did not establish an in-service event or exposure to herbicide agents.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for an earlier effective date for service connection and TDIU are remanded due to the need for additional medical opinions regarding the etiology of his coronary artery disease.
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