The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have been found to preclude him from securing and maintaining all forms of substantially gainful employment, thus TDIU is granted.
The deciding factor: Affording the Veteran the benefit of doubt, his service-connected disabilities are found to preclude him from securing and following substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- scoliosis of the spine, lumbar stenosis, degenerative arthritis and degenerative disc disease with lumbar radiculitis and healed scar, rheumatoid arthritis (assumed from context, not explicitly stated), radiculopathy, right lower extremity associated with scoliosis of the spine, residual fracture of the proximal end of the first right metacarpal
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18102978
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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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- Granted
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