The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including mood/anxiety disorder to include depression, pleurisy, and tonsillitis, do not preclude him from maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: VA medical opinions indicate that the Veteran is unable to maintain gainful employment due to multiple health problems, with his nonservice-connected conditions playing a significant role in this determination.
- Claimed conditions
- mood/anxiety disorder to include depression, pleurisy, tonsillitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 25, 2011
- Citation
- 1139560
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