The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are of sufficient severity to preclude him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, warranting a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s service-connected bilateral knee disabilities have worsened significantly since he was determined unemployable by vocational rehabilitation services in November 2016, preventing him from performing physical work requirements.
- Claimed conditions
- status post right elbow fracture with arthritis, internal derangement with mild degenerative changes of the bilateral knees, hypertensive vascular disease, status post left knee scar, bilateral knee instability, bilateral knee limitation of extension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 6, 2020
- Citation
- 20064655
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.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for bilateral knee instability and denied service connection for right and left knee instability, finding no nexus between the Veteran's knee conditions and his service or service-connected disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for hypertensive vascular disease due to a lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, for purposes of entitlement to dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC), due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for hypertensive vascular disease was dismissed, while service connection for reactive airway disease (claimed as restrictive lung disease) was granted. The appeals for sleep apnea, left knee disability, and right knee disability were remanded.
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