The Board denied the veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, finding that his combined schedular evaluation of 60 percent did not render him unemployable without considering other factors such as advancing age.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for TDIU as they are less than 100% disabling and do not preclude substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected conditions alone.
- Claimed conditions
- paralysis external popliteal nerve, left leg, residuals of lung injury, thigh muscle injury, right, malaria, scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2003
- Citation
- 0304601
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