The veteran's service-connected cold injury residuals are of such nature and severity as to prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment, warranting a TDIU rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities (cold injury residuals) cause his inability to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- December 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0637178
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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.
What you can do next
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