FROM THE JAMESTOWN RO

(THE ORIGINAL FORT FUMBLE)

Yes, indeed. Here we have the quintessential “spaghetti” filing. Veronica Vet blames VA for everything and then sees if anything sticks. HBV and hemorrhoids did. At 0% for both, she is unwittingly entitled to 10% if they are permanent (check) and somewhat disabling from the perspective of seeking work (?). A little more elbow grease on her part would have shown that she needed more ammo for a true, compensable rating but what the hey? Maybe she depended too much on the Virginia Dept. of Vet Affairs to represent her.

§ 3.324

Multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities.

Whenever a veteran is suffering from two or more separate permanent service-connected disabilities of such character as clearly to interfere with normal employability, even though none of the disabilities may be of compensable degree under the 1945 Schedule for Rating Disabilities the rating agency is authorized to apply a 10-percent rating, but not in combination with any other rating.

Of course , getting them to “apply” the 10% rating is the trick, now isn’t it?