The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board has granted TDIU.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran’s service-connected conditions render him unable to maintain substantially gainful employment due to their combined effects on his physical and mental abilities.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, prepyloric ulcer with hiatal hernia and antral gastritis (to include gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and diverticulosis), adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, radiculopathy, sciatic nerve left lower extremity, radiculopathy, sciatic nerve right lower extremity, radiculopathy, femoral nerve right lower extremity, radiculopathy, femoral nerve left lower extremity, tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, sinusitis with allergic rhinitis, hemorrhoids, bilateral inguinal herniorrhaphy, scars from bilateral inguinal herniorrhaphy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- August 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19159828
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What this means for you
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