The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment, and the RO must reassess his TDIU claim for the entire period on appeal.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that significantly impact his ability to work, but the RO did not consider all of these disabilities in determining whether he is unemployable during the entire period on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary, frontal, and ethmoid sinusitis, forehead and chin scars, headache disability (TBI residual), right centrally located scotoma, anosmia (TBI residual), cranioplasty residuals (TBI residual), hypogeusia (TBI residual), right deviated septum (TBI residual), tongue repair residuals (TBI residual), epigastric region surgical scar (feeding tube) and anterior side of the neck scar (tracheostomy) (TBI residual), loss of part of the mandible (replaced with prosthesis) (TBI residual), loss of maxilla (injury to roof of mouth) (TBI residual)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 3, 2023
- Citation
- 23020304
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What this means for you
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