Granted
The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and an earlier effective date for the grant of basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities collectively are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability, and he has permanent and total disability as of May 29, 2015, for DEA eligibility purposes.
- Claimed conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Bilateral Plantar Fasciitis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Thoracolumbar Spine with Intervertebral Disc Syndrome, Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical Spine, Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, Radiculopathy, Right Lower Extremity Associated with DDD, Thoracolumbar Spine, Plantar Fasciitis, Left Foot Associated with DDD, Thoracolumbar Spine, Left Knee Strain with Traumatic Arthritis Associated with DDD, Knee Strain with Traumatic Arthritis, Thoracolumbar Spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25012012
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