The veteran is currently shown to be unemployable due to service-connected disabilities, and the Board finds that a total rating based on individual employability due to service-connected disabilities is warranted.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the schedular criteria under 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(a) and his subjective testimony, medical opinion from his private physician, and the Board's consideration of the benefit of the doubt all support a finding that he is unemployable due to these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- unfavorable ankylosis of four digits of left hand, restrictive lung disease, superficial scars, tender, left index finger, superficial scars, tender, amputation site, left ring finger, superficial scars, tender, amputation site, left middle finger, scar, amputation site, left little finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0616818
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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.
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