The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to the Veteran's service-connected heart and leg disabilities, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in approximate balance as to whether the service-connected heart and leg disabilities preclude the Veteran from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation consistent with his education, skills, training, and work history.
- Claimed conditions
- Arteriosclerotic heart disease (coronary artery disease) with mitral valve regurgitation, Atrial fibrillation status post implanted cardiac pacemaker, Left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Diabetes mellitus type II with hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25045888
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 766 · Granted: 40% (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.
- Granted
The Veteran's hypertension is granted a 10 percent rating, and his right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy is granted an 80 percent rating.
- Granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for DM II, left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II, and bilateral lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II.
- Granted
The Board granted increased disability ratings of 40 percent for both the left and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, effective May 27, 2022, as well as a total disability rating based on individual unemployability from that date.
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