The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating due to individual unemployability based on service-connected disabilities, as his service-connected conditions have rendered him unable to secure and maintain substantial gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected degenerative arthritis of the spine and right shoulder strain, impingement syndrome, rotator cuff tear and acromioclavicular joint osteoarthritis preclude him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment due to his physical limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis of spine with intervertebral disc syndrome, right shoulder strain, impingement syndrome, rotator cuff tear and acromioclavicular joint osteoarthritis, cervical strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183600
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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