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    • Extra-schedular evaluations are now explicitly permitted for individual service-connected disabilities.
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    • The amended regulation provides a mechanism for compensating veterans with exceptionally severe individual disabilities.
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    • This rule clarifies that such evaluations are for single, unusually impactful disabilities, not combined conditions.