The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need for regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran requires assistance with daily activities such as feeding himself, bathing, and managing medications due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with Persistent Depressive Disorder, Radiculopathy of the Right Lower Extremity, Sciatic Nerve, Degenerative Arthritis with Facet Arthrosis of the Lumbosacral Spine and IVDS, Radiculopathy of the Left Lower Extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25047417
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (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.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for discontinuance of TDIU, reduction of disability rating for acquired psychiatric disorder, and reduction of disability rating for radiculopathy of the left lower extremity due to lack of response from the Veteran within the required timeframe.
- Denied
The Board found that the evidence did not show an actual improvement in the Veteran's conditions, and thus denied the reduction requests for his service-connected disabilities.
- Granted
The Veteran's low back disability is granted service connection.,Service connection for radiculopathy of the left and right lower extremities are also granted.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected PTSD with persistent depressive disorder has rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful employment, and thus, a TDIU is granted.
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