The veteran's service-connected conditions do not render him incapable of gainful employment, and the evidence does not warrant referral for consideration of individual unemployability on an extra-schedular basis.
The deciding factor: The combined evaluation of all service-connected disabilities is 60 percent, which does not meet the schedular requirements for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary sinusitis with rhinitis, partial paralysis, left frontalis muscle, facial lacerations, residuals of removal of ingrown toenails, great toes, bilateral, with onychomycosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2007
- Citation
- 0701764
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