The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on unemployability (TDIU) from November 5, 2008, to October 18, 2011, from January 1, 2012, to October 23, 2012, from February 1, 2013, to February 23, 2014, and from April 1, 2015, to March 10, 2024.

The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have been shown to be of such severity so as to preclude substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and occupational history.

Claimed conditions

right total hip arthroplasty, painful right hip scars, degenerative arthritis of the spine with intervertebral disc syndrome, right lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, left lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, left wrist condition, right ankle condition, tinnitus, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), right hip osteochondral fracture status post-surgical repair, right hip limited flexion, bilateral hearing loss, bronchitis (also claimed as asthma), scars, residual of right hip surgery, right hip thigh impairment, superficial nonlinear postoperative residual right hip scar

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

March 26, 2025

Citation

25004097

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