The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including voiding dysfunction and gastric ulcer, preclude him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the Veteran's service-connected conditions significantly impact his ability to work due to frequent urination and related physical limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- status post vagotomy and pyroplasty for gastric ulcer, voiding dysfunction associated with essential hypertension with history of renal insufficiency, hypertension with history of renal insufficiency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25041309
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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