Granted
The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance benefits, effective October 20, 2014.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions prevented him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, meeting the criteria for a TDIU and DEA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, lumbar spondylosis and IVDS, hypothyroidism, femoral radiculopathy, right lower extremity, tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2025
- Citation
- A25008956
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