The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to maintain substantially gainful employment, and a TDIU rating is granted.
The deciding factor: The combined effect of the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities precludes him from participating in any regular substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and occupational experience.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine degenerative joint disease (DJD), cervical spine intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS), left lower extremity sciatica, right lower extremity radiculopathy, a headache disability, right upper extremity neuropathy, left upper extremity neuropathy, erectile dysfunction (ED)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 13, 2020
- Citation
- 20073066
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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