The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) from February 1, 2022.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows the combined effect of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities precludes substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Unspecified anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder, Lumbosacral sprain with degenerative arthritis, Left hip trochanteric pain syndrome with osteoarthritis (limitation of extension), Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Right hip trochanteric pain syndrome with osteoarthritis (limitation of extension), Right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve), Left knee strain, Tinnitus, Pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), Right hip trochanteric pain syndrome with osteoarthritis (limitation of abduction/adduction/rotation), Left hip trochanteric pain syndrome with osteoarthritis (limitation of flexion), Left hip trochanteric pain syndrome with osteoarthritis (limitation of abduction/adduction/rotation), Tonsillectomy, Residuals (scar) injury under left eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25033002
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 124 · Granted: 45% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for Dupuytren's contracture of the left hand, right hand, and GERD is remanded due to inadequate VA examination opinions and failure to consider toxic exposure risk activities during service.
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