The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not prevent her from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: VA examinations indicated that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, while limiting in nature, did not preclude her from performing sedentary labor such as keyboarding, answering phones, and filing.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic facial pain with severe temporomandibular joint syndrome, Headaches due to an undiagnosed illness, Chondromalacia of the right knee, Hallux valgus of the right foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 9, 2017
- Citation
- 1721019
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