The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, finding that his Parkinson's disease and related conditions rendered him unable to secure or maintain gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including Parkinson's disease and its associated symptoms, were found to be sufficiently incapacitating to prevent the Veteran from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Head scars associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI), Mental manifestations to include depression and sleep disturbances due to Parkinson's disease, Urinary incontinence due to Parkinson's disease, Speech changes, hypophonia and dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease, Bilateral lower extremity impairment due to Parkinson's disease, Difficulty chewing/swallowing dysphagia due to Parkinson's disease, Sexual dysfunction due to Parkinson's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 30, 2022
- Citation
- A22024262
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- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for neurological disabilities of the upper and lower extremities, loss of automatic movement, speech changes, stooped posture, sexual dysfunction, urinary manifestations, and SMC based on loss of use of a creative organ are granted effective July 27, 2015.
- Granted
The Board has granted earlier effective dates of May 3, 2021 for the service connection of various Parkinson's disease residuals.,SMC based on housebound criteria was also granted from May 3, 2021.
- Granted
The Veteran's initial claim for service connection for Parkinson's disease was granted, and he has been assigned various disability ratings for his related conditions. The current appeal pertains to the rating of his right upper extremity disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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