Granted
The veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities, effective September 15, 2021.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD, right calcaneal fracture with posttraumatic arthritis, atrophic retinal holes with lattice degeneration in both eyes and left retinal detachment status post repair, status post sessile polyp ascending colon and diminutive polyp in the rectum, GERD, right foot neurapraxia status post open reduction internal fixation, surgical scar, status post right foot calcaneal fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25007678
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