The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, effective April 30, 2021.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and occupational background.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, Left lower extremity radiculopathy, Right lower extremity radiculopathy, Tinnitus, Residual surgical scar, lumbar laminectomy, Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2025
- Citation
- 25006366
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, as there was no evidence of a current disability in the right ear and insufficient evidence to establish a nexus between the left ear hearing loss and service.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the Veteran's conditions are related to in-service noise exposure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a medical clarification regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected epilepsy has aggravated his bilateral hearing loss.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an effective date of July 31, 2012, for TDIU and October 22, 2012, for service connection of left and right lower extremity radiculopathy.
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