The Veteran is granted a total disability rating for compensation based on unemployability of the individual due to service-connected disabilities, including dementia (presumptive via PACT Act), diabetes mellitus type II, chronic neck pain, colitis, and sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy of the feet.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including dementia (presumptive via PACT Act), diabetes mellitus type II, chronic neck pain, colitis, and sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy of the feet, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, dementia (presumptive via PACT Act), diabetes mellitus type II, chronic neck pain, colitis, sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy of the feet
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- July 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19155312
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