The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of a 40 percent rating for left lower extremity radiculopathy and denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due solely to the service-connected psychiatric disorder.

The deciding factor: The evidence did not support moderately severe incomplete paralysis of the left sciatic nerve or that the Veteran was precluded from securing or following substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected psychiatric disorder alone.

Claimed conditions

left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve), psychiatric disorder

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

March 11, 2025

Citation

25003445

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