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
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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