The Veteran is rendered unemployable as the result of service-connected disabilities and has been granted a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined evaluation for compensation is 90 percent, meeting the schedular criteria for a TDIU due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- below the knee amputation of the left leg, shrapnel fragment wound of the left thigh with metallic foreign bodies and knee involvement, splenectomy, shrapnel fragment wound of the right thigh with metallic foreign bodies and neuropathy of the lateral cutaneous nerve, shrapnel fragment found of the right leg with retained foreign bodies, abdominal scar with retained foreign bodies, Achilles tendonitis of the right ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- April 22, 2015
- Citation
- 1517316
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Partly granted
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