The veteran is service-connected for multiple disabilities, including a right shoulder disability rated at 40 percent disabling. The combined rating of his service-connected disabilities is 90 percent, meeting the criteria for a TDIU rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities are sufficient to meet the requirements for a TDIU rating as they result in an overall combined rating of 90 percent and prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability, chronic sinusitis, degenerative joint disease of the cervical spine, chronic radiculopathy of C5-6, left knee chondromalacia, right knee chondromalacia, right knee instability, pes planus, a left shoulder disability, right wrist disability, fracture of the distal right radius, a right ankle disability, post-operative left (minor) condition, fracture of the right (major) little finger, a right foot disability with hallux valgus, nonspecific urethritis, a lower lip laceration, chronic tinea cruris
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- February 21, 2007
- Citation
- 0704926
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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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