The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected knee and lumbar spine disabilities from January 12, 2012 to May 28, 2021, excluding the periods when the Veteran is service-connected at 100 percent for the service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected knee and lumbar spine disabilities rendered him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment from January 12, 2012 to May 28, 2021, excluding the periods when he was service-connected at 100 percent for his disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Knee disabilities, Lumbar spine degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2024
- Citation
- 24032967
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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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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- Partly granted
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