The Board finds that the veteran's service-connected disabilities preclude substantial gainful employment, and grants a TDIU on an extraschedular basis.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence along with comments in the VA vocational rehabilitation file and competent testimony argue that the veteran's service-connected disabilities materially contribute to his impairment of employability.
- Claimed conditions
- left inguinal herniorrhaphy with testalgia, left sural nerve disability, right inguinal herniorrhaphy surgery scar, abdominal pains associated with left herniorrhaphy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- July 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0824746
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