The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including adjustment disorder and multiple musculoskeletal conditions, are found to be so severe that they render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The combined effects of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities result in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, making it impossible for him to obtain and maintain employment.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder, right and left shoulder impingement, lumbar spondylosis, right and left wrist tendonitis, cervical spondylosis, Allergic rhinitis, Asthma, left elbow osteoarthritis, left hand arthritis, right hip strain, right and left ankle sprain, left metatarsal arthritis, right lateral epicondylitis, left and right lumbar radiculopathy, left thumb scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2021
- Citation
- 21063246
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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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- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for major depressive disorder, secondary to tinnitus and dismissed the appeal regarding an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss. The claim for adjustment disorder was remanded.
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