The Veteran is granted a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) for the appeal period beginning on September 1, 2020.
The deciding factor: The combined effects of the Veteran's service connected disabilities rendered him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment for the appeal period beginning on September 1, 2020.
- Claimed conditions
- status post total right knee replacement, status post total left knee replacement, PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 16, 2024
- Citation
- A24066212
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to increased ratings for right knee disabilities due to an inadequate medical opinion that failed to account for medication effects.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case to have the agency of original jurisdiction adjudicate the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted increased disability ratings of 60 percent for the Veteran's status post total left knee replacement and status post total right knee arthroplasty, effective February 1, 2023.
- Granted
The Veteran's PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder was granted a 70 percent rating, but no higher.
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