The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render her unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation, warranting the grant of TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that limit her physical capabilities and have led to her inability to maintain employment in her previous field as a home health nurse.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma and stress-related disorder, C4-C7 degenerative disc disease with surgical fusion, L5-S1 degenerative disc disease with fusion and spinal cord implant, rheumatoid arthritis of the right heel (Haglund's deformity), left anterior neck scar, right flank scar, midline low back scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- August 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19165806
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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
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