The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the schedular requirements for assignment of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined disability evaluation is 60 percent, which does not meet the minimum schedular criteria for a TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- instability and subluxation of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the right knee status post arthroplasty, muscle atrophy of the right calf, muscle atrophy of the right thigh, degenerative joint disease and strain of the right hip, right foot strain, right ankle strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- February 7, 2011
- Citation
- 1104814
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