The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation, and he is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities, spine fusion, right lower extremity radiculopathy, tender surgical scar, acute myelogenous leukemia, and surgical scar, render him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Hypertension, Transient Ischemic Attack (Stroke-TIA)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 3, 2023
- Citation
- 23000209
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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