The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including depressive disorder with anxiety distress and flat feet with bilateral plantar fasciitis, preclude him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment due to his physical limitations and mental health issues impacting his ability to perform tasks required by work.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20063925
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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