The Veteran is granted a total disability rating due to individual unemployability from January 19, 2010 to September 14, 2014.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder (PTSD), coronary artery disease, residuals of shell fragment wound to left ankle with retained foreign body, Type II diabetes mellitus, sensory deficit to the left side of the face due to shell fragment wound, residual of shell fragment wound to right knee with retained foreign body, residual of shell fragment wound to left thigh, residual of shell fragment wound to left shoulder and arm, left mandible fracture with malunion due to shell fragment wound
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2018
- Citation
- 18143447
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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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