The Board denied the claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, including Reiter's Syndrome, from December 11, 2001.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show that the Veteran was unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment as a result of his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Reiter's Syndrome, Left Shoulder Degenerative Arthritis, Ulcerative Colitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- 25012557
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,329 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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