The Veteran's combined rating for his service-connected conditions is 60 percent, which meets the criteria for a TDIU. The Veteran has an Associate of Arts degree and work experience in leatherwork and as a mechanic and delivery driver.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined schedular rating for all service-connected disabilities (30% for gunshot wound residuals, 10% each for PTSD, right palm abscess with ulnar nerve lesion, sciatic nerve injury, and noncompensable shin scar) meets the criteria for a TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound of the left anterior thigh, sciatic nerve injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 29, 2010
- Citation
- 1044537
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