The Board has granted an effective date of September 20, 1996 for the assignment of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine, skin, and lower extremity disabilities rendered him unable to work in any form of employment as early as September 20, 1996.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar paravertebral myositis, discogenic disease, psoriasiform dermatitis and folliculitis of the thighs, sciatic neuritis on the right side, psoriasis arthritis of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2024
- Citation
- A24073613
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Decisions by this judge: 869 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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- Granted
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