The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent her from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, granting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) for the entire appellate period.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s service-connected disabilities significantly impair her ability to perform physical and mental acts required for substantially gainful employment, as evidenced by medical examinations and evaluations.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease L3-4 and degenerative joint disease L4-5 and L5-S1, Residuals of left shoulder injury with degenerative changes, Instability and subluxation, right knee, status-post meniscal tear with degenerative changes, Right great toe, hallux valgus of the right foot to include degenerative joint disease and osteoporosis right foot, Left great toe, hallux valgus of the left foot, Fracture, distal end of radius and to lateral styloid process, left, Right lower extremity radiculopathy associated with degenerative disc disease L3-4 and degenerative joint disease L4-5 and L5-S1 to include osteoporosis, Left lower extremity radiculopathy associated with degenerative disc disease L3-4 and degenerative joint disease L4-5 and L5-S1 to include osteoporosis, Right foot hammertoes, Left foot hammertoes, Scar, right knee status post meniscectomy, arthroscopic debridement associated with instability and subluxation, right knee status post meniscal tear with degenerative changes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20064204
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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