The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including her lumbosacral degenerative disc disease and right foot injury, have rendered her unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment for the appeal period prior to April 22, 2013.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities significantly impair her ability to perform physical work, preventing her from engaging in her previous occupation as a machinist and making it difficult for her to secure any other employment due to her functional limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral degenerative disc disease, coccydynia, surgical scar associated with her lumbar spine condition, right foot injury, rheiculopathy of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 2, 2021
- Citation
- 21011634
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What this means for you
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