The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 12, 2018 for the award of a TDIU and Dependents' Educational Assistance based on permanent and total disability status.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities met the criteria for a TDIU from January 12, 2018, and he continuously pursued his lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis of the spine, IVDS, and spondylosis claim by virtue of filing an HLR claim within one year of the December 2019 decision.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis of the spine, IVDS, and spondylosis, severe major depressive disorder, disequilibrium associated with tympanoplasty with tympanic membrane cyst (cholesteatoma), right lower radiculopathy, sciatic nerve, right lower radiculopathy, femoral nerve, bilateral tinnitus, painful flexion due to degenerative osteoarthritis of the right hip with articular cartilage loss, bilateral hearing loss, tympanoplasty with tympanic membrane cyst (cholesteatoma), loss of sense of taste associated with tympanoplasty with tympanic membrane cyst (cholesteatoma), loss of sense of smell associated with tympanoplasty with tympanic membrane cyst (cholesteatoma), limitation of the thigh, adduction, abduction, internal and external rotation due to degenerative osteoarthritis of the right hip with articular cartilage loss, limitation of extension due to degenerative osteoarthritis of the right hip with articular cartilage loss
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2024
- Citation
- A24068324
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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