The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his lumbar spine disability, bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, and migraines, are found to be of sufficient severity to render him practically unemployable. The Board grants TDIU on an extraschedular basis.
The deciding factor: The combined physical limitations placed upon any employment situation, along with the Veteran's migraine attacks that can last up to seven hours per episode, make it difficult for him to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment solely due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disability, bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, migraines
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 13, 2022
- Citation
- 22002068
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