Partly granted
The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, but denied an increased rating for the unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions rendered him unable to maintain substantially gainful employment, warranting a TDIU rating, but his symptoms did not meet criteria for a higher rating for the unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, intervertebral disc syndrome of the lumbar spine, right lower extremity radiculopathy, left lower extremity radiculopathy, tinnitus, thoracic spine scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25011466
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