Granted
The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and special monthly compensation due to service-connected lumbar spinal stenosis from March 25, 2024.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected lumbar spinal stenosis alone precluded all substantially gainful employment for which his education and occupational experience would have otherwise qualified him, effective March 25, 2024.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spinal stenosis with degenerative disc disease and discectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25110823
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