Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment, warranting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective from January 15, 2021.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's severe occupational impairment from his service-connected psychiatric disability and back pain renders him unemployable in his former occupation of information technology since approximately 2018.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of the spine, Lumbosacral radiculopathy, left lower extremity, sciatic nerve, Lumbosacral radiculopathy, right lower extremity, sciatic nerve
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25085334
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