Granted
The veteran's service-connected disabilities are severe enough to prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment, so he is granted total disability due to individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, anxiety, chronic low back pain, tinnitus, radiculopathy in the left leg, left and right knee osteoarthritis, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25004808
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