The Veteran's service-connected left ankle, right ankle, and left shoulder disabilities preclude him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran is physically not able to perform sedentary employment due to his service-connected disabilities, which preclude non-sustained standing or walking even for brief periods, as well as occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and overhead reaching.
- 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 10, 2023
- Citation
- 23001663
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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