The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities since July 31, 2014. The combined rating for the service-connected conditions (Persistent Depressive Disorder and Status post gunshot wound in the right shoulder) meets the threshold requirements under VA regulations.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected Persistent Depressive Disorder and Status post gunshot wound in the right shoulder prevent him from maintaining substantially gainful employment due to his functional limitations with physical impairment and psychiatric symptoms, which are in equipoise as to whether he can perform sedentary employment opportunities.
- Claimed conditions
- Persistent Depressive Disorder, Status post gunshot wound in the right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19104214
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
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