The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render her unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment, and the Board grants TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that significantly impair her ability to work due to pain, surgeries, and other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disability status-post total knee arthroplasty, right knee disability status post total knee arthroplasty, total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo oophorectomy, carpal tunnel syndrome of the right wrist, status-post bunionectomy of the right foot, status-post bunionectomy of the left foot, post-operative scars of the left and right knees
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2018
- Citation
- 18155147
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome of the right wrist based on a medical nexus between an in-service incurrence and the current diagnosis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent for his right knee disability status post total knee arthroplasty to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error by affording the Veteran an adequate VA examination.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome of the right and left wrist, a seizure disorder, an inguinal hernia, an acquired psychiatric disability, and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to a procedural defect in the Veteran's submissions, as review of the May 2022 and March 2022 rating decisions could only be sought 'in one review lane at a time.'
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