The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including her hysterectomy, cervical spine, low back, and foot conditions, have a combined disability rating of 80 percent. These disabilities prevent the veteran from securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are severe enough to preclude her from obtaining or retaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a hysterectomy, cervical spine disability, low back disability, hallux valgus deformity of the left foot, hallux valgus deformity of the right foot, scar status post vulvar cyst removal, recurring mild bilateral onychomycosis and tinea pedis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- April 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0610856
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for a bilateral knee disability, bilateral upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, lumbar spine disability, cervical spine disability, and chronic pain syndrome due to untimely notices of disagreement.
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