Granted
The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities from March 1, 2021, and an effective date of March 1, 2021, for eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from retaining substantially gainful employment from March 1, 2021 to December 8, 2023, and a TDIU is warranted for this period.
- Claimed conditions
- spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, degenerative disc disease, lumbosacral strain, degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25099392
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