The veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability prevents him from engaging in substantially gainful employment compatible with his work experience and education, thus meeting the criteria for a total rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected anxiety neurosis significantly reduced his ability to meet production, quality, and attendance standards of competitive employment at any level.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of burns of the back, right arm and left leg, anxiety neurosis, laceration of the left hand with loss of function of tendons of the middle finger, burn scar of the right ear, acne vulgaris
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0015660
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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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