The Veteran is rendered unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment as a result of his service-connected disabilities, and the Board finds that TDIU criteria are met.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unemployable due to their severity and impact on his ability to perform work requiring heavy lifting.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of shell fragment wounds to the right leg and ankle with multiple retained fragment bodies, residuals of shell fragment wounds to the right elbow with retained foreign bodies, type II diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction, mild sensory loss of the upper right extremity associated with residuals of shell fragment wounds, mild sensory loss of the lower right extremity associated with residuals of shell fragment wounds
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- February 4, 2013
- Citation
- 1303778
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What this means for you
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