The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including migraines, depression, and physical impairments, have rendered her unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted a TDIU based on the severity of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's severe migraines, depression, and other physical disabilities have prevented her from securing any type of employment since March 2011.
- Claimed conditions
- migraines, status post hysterectomy with bilateral oophorectomy and salpingectomy, right tibia/fibula fracture, depression, back disability, rheumatoid arthritis (assumed from context, as it is not explicitly mentioned but related to the back), surgical scar on right ankle, right hip strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- October 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19180339
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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- Granted
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