The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his psychiatric condition and other health issues like coronary artery disease, diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, and gastroparesis, make it impossible for him to secure or maintain gainful employment. The Board has granted a TDIU based on this.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected mental health conditions, along with his physical disabilities, rendered him unable to work due to cognitive impairments and physical limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disability, coronary artery disease, diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, gastroparesis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- October 14, 2020
- Citation
- 20066670
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
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- Granted
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- 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.
- 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.
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