The veteran's service-connected urethral stricture is causing significant urinary frequency and nocturia, which clearly interferes with his normal employability. Therefore, a 10 percent rating based on multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities is granted.
The deciding factor: The veteran's urethral stricture symptoms are of such character as to clearly interfere with normal employability.
- Claimed conditions
- tonsillitis, urethral stricture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0307810
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