The Board restored the 10 percent rating for intermittent skin rash and granted a total rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least evenly balanced as to whether the nature and severity of the veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from obtaining and retaining substantially gainful employment, and the RO failed to consider or provide notice of the provisions of 38 C.F.R. § 3.344 in reducing the rating for intermittent skin rash.
- Claimed conditions
- intermittent skin rash due to undiagnosed illness, chronic fatigue syndrome (characterized by dizziness, headaches, muscle pain and twitching), diarrhea due to undiagnosed illness, undiagnosed illness manifested by night sweats
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2008
- Citation
- 0812707
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Decisions by this judge: 2,196 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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