The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not preclude her from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities, but the evidence does not demonstrate that these conditions prevent her from engaging in substantial gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic, recurrent urinary tract infections, residuals of a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, residuals of a bunionectomy of the right little toe, hysterectomy scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- September 12, 2012
- Citation
- 1231398
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