The Veteran's service-connected disabilities preclude substantially gainful employment from July 15, 2019, and a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) is granted effective that date.
The deciding factor: The combined effects of the Veteran's psychiatric disability, migraine headaches, and musculoskeletal disabilities and associated neurological symptoms precluded substantially gainful employment from July 15, 2019.
- Claimed conditions
- Other specified trauma or stress related disorder with traumatic brain injury (TBI), Migraine headaches, Cervical radiculopathy, radial, median, and long thoracic nerve, right, Cervical radiculopathy, radial, median, and long thoracic nerve, left, Bicipital and rotator cuff tendonitis, right shoulder, Degenerative disc disease with segmental dysfunction and stenosis, cervical spine, Intervertebral disc syndrome with degenerative arthritis, bulging disc L4/5 and sprain, lumbar spine, Facial cranial nerve palsy V, VII, and IX, left, Esophagitis, Lumbar radiculopathy, sciatic nerve, left, Injury of digital nerve, right finger, Surgical scars, right shoulder, Laceration scar, right finger, Loss of tooth associated with cervical radiculopathy, left
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2024
- Citation
- A24066686
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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