The Board denied an earlier effective date for the Total Disability Rating based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU) and did not address the issue of an earlier effective date for the rating issues. The veteran's attorney was paid a fee from past-due benefits, but this payment is being withheld as it does not meet the requirements due to the separate nature of the TDIU issue.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the issue of an earlier effective date for TDIU was not underlying the issues successfully appealed to the Court and thus did not meet the requirement for attorney fees from past-due benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Back disorder, Acquired psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0000748
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What this means for you
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