The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including bilateral defective hearing and a right shoulder disability, prevent him from securing and following substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities are sufficiently disabling to prevent him from engaging in substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral defective hearing, status post dislocation repair of the right shoulder with loss of motion and traumatic arthritis, schizophrenic reaction and residuals of heat burns to the face, neck, and upper extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0116495
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What this means for you
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