Granted
The veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, effective September 1, 2011.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities preclude him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder, PTSD, lumbar strain, right knee instability, left knee injury, hypertension, right knee postoperative degenerative changes, right fifth metatarsal fracture postoperative, right knee meniscus repair scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2025
- Citation
- 25001317
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