The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not prevent him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation, thus denying his claim for TDIU.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that the Veteran is unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral keratitis sicca, Genital herpes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19130825
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,374 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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