The Veteran's service-connected skin disabilities do not meet the criteria for a TDIU as they are rated at 50% and do not satisfy the percentage requirements. The Board found that his skin disabilities do not prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s skin disabilities, while occasionally painful and interfering with sitting and walking when inflamed, do not render him incapable of performing the physical and mental acts required to be employed.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent abscesses of the face, axillary, trunk, groin, intergluteal areas, painful residual scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- September 11, 2020
- Citation
- 20059837
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