The Board has determined that the Veteran is unemployable due to service-connected disabilities and grants a total disability rating based on individual unemployability, effective August 12, 2019.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's service-connected conditions have significantly impacted his ability to maintain substantially gainful employment consistent with his educational and occupational background.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, Chronic sensory-motor distal peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity (formerly evaluated as lumbar radiculopathy of peripheral neuropathy), Diabetes mellitus, type II, Dry eyes associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, Peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, Scar, laceration of the right side of the jaw, Incipient cataracts, each eye (associated with diabetes mellitus, type II)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19162239
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation (SMC) at the R(1) rate due to his need for regular aid and attendance.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding no evidence that his death was related to any injury or disease in service, including exposure to herbicide agents.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for peripheral neuropathy of both lower extremities to obtain a VA medical opinion regarding whether the current condition is caused or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus type II.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.
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