The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment consistent with his educational and vocational experience from September 14, 2011. The Board finds that the evidence is at least in equipoise and grants TDIU effective September 14, 2011.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment consistent with his educational and vocational experience from September 14, 2011.
- Claimed conditions
- status post total right knee replacement, limitation of extension of the left thigh associated with status post total right knee replacement, left hip bursitis associated with status post total right knee replacement, healed fractures of left and right clavicles, post traumatic neuropathy of right axillary nerve
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- August 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19160748
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