The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment as of April 3, 2011, and the Board granted a TDIU effective that date.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected Scheuermann's Disease, bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, and surgical scar limitations prevented him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- Scheuermann's Disease, left lower extremity radiculopathy sciatic nerve paralysis, right lower extremity radiculopathy sciatic nerve paralysis, surgical scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- October 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19176446
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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