The Veteran's service-connected conditions do not prevent her from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, as she is already in receipt of a combined 100% rating for the entire period on appeal.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities but does not have one that prevents her from securing or following substantially gainful employment due to marginal employment and other factors.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, left hip osteoarthritides status post hip replacement surgery, hysterectomy, total right hip replacement, degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine with degenerative disc disease and multi-level spondyloarthropathy, status post disk replacement at C5-C6, status post anterior approach interbody fusion C6-C7, radiculopathy middle and upper radicular groups left upper extremity, radiculopathy middle and upper radicular groups right upper extremity, right hip osteoarthritis limitation of abduction/adduction/rotation, multilevel degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine, raticulopathy sciatic nerve left lower extremity, tinnitus, primary Hashimoto's thyroiditis, painful residual neck scar, radiculopathy sciatic nerve right lower extremity, radiculopathy femoral nerve left lower extremity, radiculopathy femoral nerve right lower extremity, painful scar right lateral hip, right hip osteoarthritis limitation of extension, right hip osteoarthritis limitation of flexion, left knee strain, allergic rhinitis, ureterolithiasis, residual neck scars, left thigh scar, right lateral hip scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2022
- Citation
- 22061011
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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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