Partly granted
The veteran's appeal for Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU) was granted from September 29, 2009. The issue of TDIU prior to this date was remanded for extraschedular consideration.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation since September 29, 2009.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine injury with degenerative joint disease, status post total right knee arthroplasty, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2025
- Citation
- 25001055
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