Granted
The Veteran is granted a total disability rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities from January 1, 2015.
The deciding factor: The record indicates that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities precluded employment outside of a 'protected environment' from January 1, 2015, and no earlier.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 7, 2022
- Citation
- 22000946
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
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