The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD and multiple musculoskeletal conditions, prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined disability rating is 90 percent due to his service-connected disabilities, which are sufficient to preclude him from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Cervical spine degenerative disc disease and degenerative joint disease, Fibromyalgia, Lumbar spine degenerative joint disease, degenerative disc disease and intervertebral disc syndrome with perineural cyst within the upper sacral spinal canal, Left knee patellofemoral syndrome with internal derangement, Tinnitus, Urticaria, Sciatic radiculopathy, left leg, Sciatic radiculopathy, right leg, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- March 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19121317
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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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