The Veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the schedular percentage requirements for TDIU and also demonstrate that he is unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected conditions, warranting a grant of TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's combined service-connected disability rating is 80 percent, meeting the basic schedular disability rating criteria. Additionally, the medical evidence shows that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unemployable.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a cold injury to the left lower extremity, residuals of a cold injury to the right lower extremity, herniated invertebral discs, tinnitus, radiculopathy or the left lower extremity, radiculopathy or the right lower extremity, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- July 26, 2016
- Citation
- 1629757
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