The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted his claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's multiple service-connected disabilities, including mood disorder, hypertensive heart disease, and orthopedic impairments, cause occupational impairment to the point that he is considered unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder, hypertensive heart disease, left sciatica, degenerative joint disease of the left knee, status post surgery to right wrist and metacarpal fracture of right thumb, hypertension, left wrist carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar muscle strain, residual scars, right wrist and right thumb, tinnitus, scar on left elbow, erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 29, 2021
- Citation
- 21066386
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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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