The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including Parkinsonism with depression, cognitive impairment/dementia, and Bradykinesia, have rendered him unemployable. The Board has granted the TDIU claim based on these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him confused and unable to work well with others, affecting his memory and mobility, which make it difficult for him to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Parkinsonism, cognitive impairment/dementia, neurocognitive disorder, bradykinesia, right upper extremity, bradykinesia, left upper extremity, bradykinesia, right and left lower extremities, speech impairment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 27, 2022
- Citation
- A22021726
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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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