The Veteran's service-connected orthopedic disabilities affect a single body system and combine to a 70 percent rating, preventing him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The combined rating of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities meets the threshold requirement for a TDIU under section 4.16(a).
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (Cervical Spine), Right Shoulder Degenerative Joint Disease, Lumbosacral Syndrome with Degenerative Arthritis, Left Shoulder Degenerative Joint Disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 27, 2012
- Citation
- 1229320
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