The Board has determined that the appellant's service-connected disabilities, including her anxiety neurosis and lumbar spine injury, prevent her from securing or following substantially gainful employment. Therefore, a total disability rating based on individual unemployability is granted.
The deciding factor: The appellant's service-connected conditions, particularly her low back problems and mental condition, require her to use assistive devices and present significant limitations in social and industrial functioning.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety neurosis, residuals of a lumbar spine injury with degenerative joint disease, residuals of a septorrhinoplasty, osteoporosis with joint manifestations
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2001
- Citation
- 0102940
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What this means for you
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