The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The veteran's combined rating for his service-connected disabilities is less than the required percentage, and there is no evidence of unemployability due solely to his service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of contusion to the lumbosacral region, fracture of IX, X, XI, XII ribs, healed, hemothorax, hematuria, traumatic, healed
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 19, 2001
- Citation
- 0116577
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