The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: VA examination did not find the service-connected right knee disability alone sufficient to preclude the Veteran from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment, given his education and past work experience.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of total right knee replacement with instability, surgical scars of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 19, 2018
- Citation
- 1803773
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- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for increased evaluations for actinic keratosis and eczema, as well as surgical scars of the right and left knees.
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