The veteran's combined evaluation of 60 percent does not meet the criteria for a total rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected disabilities alone.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not meet the schedular criteria for a total rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability under the provisions of 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(a).
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee meniscectomy residuals with osteoarthritis, Post-operative recurrent left shoulder dislocation residuals with osteoarthritis, Left knee patellar subluxation, Chronic lumbar spine spondylosis with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- July 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0824046
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- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his right and left knee conditions, bilateral pes planus, hypertension with chest pain, low back condition, tinnitus, radiculopathy, patellar subluxation, painful motion in knees and feet, and hearing loss, precluded him from obtaining or retaining substantially gainful employment beginning July 1, 2014.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unemployable, as he has a master’s degree in educational administration and work experience as an Army instructor/teacher. The Board finds that the evidence is insufficient to show his physical impairments prevent him from performing sedentary work.
- Granted
The Board has granted an extension of the temporary total disability evaluation for the veteran's right knee meniscectomy residuals with osteoarthritis under the provisions of 38 C.F.R. § 4.30 until January 20, 1999, based upon convalescence following a July 1998 surgical procedure.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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