The Veteran is unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment due to service-connected disabilities, and a TDIU is granted.
The deciding factor: The combined effect of the Veteran's mental and physical limitations have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- insomnia disorder, right total knee replacement, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with lumbar strain, lumbar strain associated with right total knee replacement, neuropathy, right hip degenerative joint disease status post open reduction internal fixation (extension), right hip degenerative joint disease status post open reduction internal fixation (adduction), right knee scar, right hip degenerative joint disease status post open reduction internal fixation (flexion)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- March 26, 2026
- Citation
- A26027297
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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.
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- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew their appeals for the claims of service connection for insomnia disorder with generalized anxiety disorder, pes planus, calcaneonavicular coalition bilateral feet secondary to right ankle sprain, and pes planus, calcaneonavicular coalition bilateral feet secondary to left ankle pain.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected unspecified depressive disorder with insomnia disorder is rated at 30 percent, and the Board has determined that this rating is not sufficient to reflect his disability picture.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to errors in the pre-decisional duty to assist, and a need for an addendum opinion regarding the Veteran's claimed insomnia disorder.
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