The Veteran's service-connected bilateral eye disability renders him unemployable from performing all forms of substantially gainful employment that are consistent with his education and occupational experience.
The deciding factor: A VA examiner concluded the claimant would not be employable in any regular kind of job due to his level of vision, which is barely adequate for legally driving a car.
- Claimed conditions
- chorioretinitis of the right eye, cataract of the left eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 9, 2010
- Citation
- 1013661
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