The Board has granted service connection for a left great toe injury and denied the claim for TDIU based on insufficient evidence of unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's employment status was not established, and his combined disability rating did not meet the criteria for an award of TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- left great toe injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19176746
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,217 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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- Whole decision: Denied
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