The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including lumbar and lumbosacral spine degenerative joint disease and degenerative disc disease, right ankle fracture residuals, left leg sciatica, and right leg sciatica, have prevented him from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's service-connected disabilities precluded him from obtaining or retaining substantially gainful employment, and reasonable doubt was resolved in his favor.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2022
- Citation
- 22001464
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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