The Veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the minimum schedular criteria for a TDIU, and his unemployability is due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The combined evaluation of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities (peripheral neuropathy, right upper extremity; diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction, diabetic dermopathy, left medial ankle, and bilateral cataracts) meets or exceeds 70% when considered together as a whole.
- Claimed conditions
- an acquired psychiatric disability to include PTSD
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- June 3, 2013
- Citation
- 1318027
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