The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation, and he is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective June 11, 2023.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability, as evidenced by his inability to perform the necessary tasks and duties required for his job with DoD due to chronic knee and ankle pain, depressive disorder, and other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25038938
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.
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