The Board has granted a TDIU from February 20, 2003 due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities preventing him from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine injury with degenerative joint disease and right knee disability have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation since February 20, 2003.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine injury with degenerative joint disease, status post total right knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 20, 2026
- Citation
- 26000748
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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 Board granted increased disability ratings of 60 percent for the Veteran's status post total left knee replacement and status post total right knee arthroplasty, effective February 1, 2023.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a rating in excess of 60 percent for the Veteran's total right knee replacement from August 1, 2021, but granted a TDIU effective August 1, 2021.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for status post total right and left knee arthroplasty.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issue of a TDIU prior to September 29, 2009 due to insufficient evidence indicating that the Veteran was unemployable by reason of service-connected disabilities. The case is now pending for referral to the Director of Compensation Service for extraschedular consideration.
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