The Veteran's service-connected nephropathy has been rated at 100% since July 30, 2010. As a result, the issue of entitlement to a total disability rating for individual unemployability (TDIU) is rendered moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's other service-connected disabilities do not render him unemployable and his current 100% schedular evaluation for nephropathy makes TDIU unnecessary.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes mellitus type II, Nephropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 15, 2017
- Citation
- 1758260
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