The Veteran was granted a TDIU based on the combined effects of all service-connected disabilities from March 7, 2011 until May 16, 2012. The appellant is eligible for payment of attorney fees related to this award.
The deciding factor: The issue of entitlement to a TDIU was part and parcel of the initial rating claim and became a component of the Veteran's total disability picture upon which the TDIU determination was based.
- Claimed conditions
- left orchiopexy, left testicle pain and scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2014
- Citation
- 1402226
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The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of left orchiopexy, left testicle pain and scarring. The evidence received since the July 1996 denial is new and material, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim. Service connection is granted.
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