The Veteran's TDIU claim was denied as his service-connected disabilities are not severe enough to prevent him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The noncompensable evaluations for the Veteran's service-connected scars do not meet the criteria for a TDIU on a schedular basis, and there is no evidence of functional impairment that would justify an extraschedular evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- scar, residual of shell fragment wounds, right upper extremity, scar, residual of shell fragment wounds, right lower extremity, scar, residual of shell fragment wounds, upper lumbar spine with retained foreign body in the right lower mid-buttock
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2011
- Citation
- 1115306
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