The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including depressive disorder, lumbar spine degenerative disc and joint disease, pes planus, and onychomycosis, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation. The Board has granted the claim for Total Disability Rating due to Individual Unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his depressive disorder, lumbar spine degenerative disc and joint disease, pes planus, and onychomycosis, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder, lumbar spine degenerative disc and joint disease, pes planus, onychomycosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- October 22, 2018
- Citation
- 18144009
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, characterized as depressive disorder, effective May 1, 2017.
- Denied
The Board denied an increased rating for depressive disorder and remanded the claims for a higher rating for headache syndrome and TDIU.
- Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's back, right ring finger, and left foot hallux valgus disabilities but granted an initial 30 percent rating for pes planus from August 17, 2021, a 50 percent rating for pes planus from December 15, 2023, and a separate 10 percent rating for bilateral plantar fasciitis from August 17, 2021.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for further development, including verification of an in-service stressor and obtaining additional medical opinions.
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