The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability from October 27, 2010 to January 28, 2016.,Beginning October 27, 2010, the Veteran is also granted special monthly compensation based on statutory housebound status.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including coronary artery disease and lumbar spine degenerative arthritis, rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation from October 27, 2010.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Coronary artery disease","rating":100,"effective_date":null,"disability_eff_date":"August 31, 2010"}, {"condition_name":"Prostate cancer","rating":100,"effective_date":"January 29, 2016","disability_eff_date":null}, {"condition_name":"Lumbar spine degenerative arthritis","rating":40,"effective_date":"November 29, 2005","disability_eff_date":"May 14, 2016"}, {"condition_name":"Left lower extremity radiculopathy","rating":10}, {"condition_name":"Right lower extremity radiculopathy","rating":10}, {"condition_name":"Erectile dysfunction","rating":null,"effective_date":null,"disability_eff_date":null}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 26, 2020
- Citation
- 20068955
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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