The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the minimum criteria for consideration of a TDIU on a schedular basis, and do not preclude substantially gainful employment so as to warrant referral for extra-schedular review.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not establish that the Veteran is unable to maintain gainful employment due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Keloid scar along the right ear, Neuritis of the fifth cranial nerve, Psychiatric disorder secondary to neuritis of the fifth cranial nerve, Scar along the left ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- May 20, 2010
- Citation
- 1018739
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