The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented her from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment during the period from September 10, 2009 to April 8, 2010 due to pregnancy.
The deciding factor: Pregnancy aggravated the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, preventing her from engaging in substantial gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of closed right fibula fracture with residual pain, scars of both legs, post-surgical abdominal scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2014
- Citation
- 1407619
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