The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for an extension of a temporary total disability rating and special monthly compensation on account of statutory housebound status, effective from July 31, 2012 until November 31, 2012. The decision is based on the Veteran's service-connected disabilities necessitating convalescence.
The deciding factor: The Veteran required a period of convalescence due to his right shoulder surgery and associated physical therapy, which resulted in him being unable to return to work for the duration of his treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder, left shoulder, psychiatric disability, disabilities of the left and right ankles
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19192444
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a psychiatric disability to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically regarding the presumption of soundness at entrance into service.
- Dismissed
The appeal concerning the service connection for various conditions and the propriety of a rating reduction has been withdrawn by the Appellant.
- Denied
The Board denied higher initial disability ratings for the service-connected psychiatric disability and denied earlier effective dates for TDIU, SMC at the schedular housebound rate, and DEA benefits.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for the Veteran's psychiatric disability and also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU), but denied an earlier effective date for service connection.
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