The Veteran is unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to service-connected disabilities, including depression and back pain. The Board has granted TDIU based on the impact of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities (depression, back pain) render her unemployable in any field requiring physical labor or sedentary work.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder not otherwise specified (NOS), mild levoscoliosis of the lumbar spine, loss of normal lumbar lordosis, mild dextroscoliosis and mild kyphosis of the mid thoracic spine, mild degenerative changes at T5-T9, right ankle instability, chronic seasonal allergic rhinitis, non-migrainous headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2019
- Citation
- 19191864
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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.
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