The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to obtain and/or maintain substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions significantly limited his ability to perform physically demanding work and required frequent restroom breaks.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy status post implantable cardiac pacemaker, type II diabetes mellitus with hypertension, renal dysfunction, and erectile dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea, tinnitus, peripheral neuropathy, right and left lower extremity, bilateral hearing loss, bladder dysfunction associated with type II diabetes mellitus with hypertension, renal dysfunction, and erectile dysfunction, scar due to pacemaker placement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- December 30, 2019
- Citation
- A19003881
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