The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities effective April 20, 2015.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected low back disability, bilateral knee disabilities, right wrist carpal subluxation, and bilateral elbow recurrent lateral epicondylitis have rendered him unable to perform the activities required to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment since April 20, 2015.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disability, Bilateral knee disabilities, Right wrist carpal subluxation, Bilateral elbow recurrent lateral epicondylitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 12, 2025
- Citation
- 25007864
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
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