The Veteran's combined rating for service-connected disabilities is 60 percent from February 24, 2014. The Board finds that referral for extraschedular consideration for the period since June 2009 is not warranted as the Veteran is capable of performing the physical and mental acts required by sedentary jobs.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not impact his ability to perform sedentary employment, thus he is not unemployable due to these conditions alone.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease, scar status post coronary bypass surgery, diabetes mellitus, type II, degenerative joint disease, left wrist, peripheral neuropathy of bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 22, 2017
- Citation
- 1734639
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD. The decision finds that the Veteran's diabetes mellitus, type II is proximately due to his service-connected PTSD.
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