Denied
The Board denied entitlement to a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability due to the Veteran's service-connected degenerative joint disease with lumbosacral strain, as it does not meet the schedular criteria for consideration of a TDIU.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not demonstrate that the Veteran's service-connected disability rendered him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2022
- Citation
- 22000011
What this means for you
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