The Veteran's combined rating for his service-connected conditions is 90%, meeting the criteria for a total disability evaluation based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities, including posttraumatic stress disorder with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and impulse control disorder, which have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and impulse control disorder, right knee instability with chondromalacia, residuals of a left wrist fracture, left knee chondromalacia, lumbosacral strain with degenerative spondylosis and lumbar scoliosis, right and left hip strains, bilateral pes cavus with pes planus, lower back piriformis syndrome, lower back scalenus anticus syndrome, left wrist scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2017
- Citation
- 1717952
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including a left wrist fracture, bilateral hearing loss, Type II diabetes, bilateral glaucoma, OSA, cervical disc herniation, and other musculoskeletal issues are denied.,Service connection is not established for any of the claimed conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and has remanded the claims for hypertension, left knee disability, and right knee disability due to duty to assist errors.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for anxiety has already been granted, as the RO has already granted service connection for major depressive disorder and residuals of traumatic brain injury, which encompasses the entire appeal period.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for lumbar spine degenerative disc disease, left knee chondromalacia, and right knee chondromalacia, finding that the Veteran's conditions are etiologically related to injuries sustained in service from parachute jumps.
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