The veteran's service-connected disabilities had increased to warrant a TDIU as of October 29, 1996. The effective date for the grant of entitlement to TDIU is set at this date.
The deciding factor: A VA psychologist's statement dated within one year prior to the veteran's initial claim indicated that the veteran was unemployable due to service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- low back strain, major depressive disorder with psychotic features, right shoulder tendonitis and adhesive capsulitis and reflex sympathetic dystrophy, residuals of a fracture of the right ring finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0033544
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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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- Dismissed
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