The Veteran is unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected disabilities, which include PTSD, back and neck conditions. The Board grants the TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities (PTSD, back, and neck) result in occupational impairment that prevents him from securing or following any substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Degenerative Changes and Lumbar Myositis, Cervical Myositis, Degenerative Joint Disease, Disc Disease with Bulging Disc at C3-C4, C4-C5 and C6-C7, Herniated Disc at C5-C6 with Compression of theca sac (neck disability), Unilateral Tinea Manum Left Palm and Tinea Unguium Left Thumbnail, Tinnitus, Left Ear Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Erectile Dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- January 11, 2018
- Citation
- 1802313
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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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