The veteran's claim for a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities is dismissed because he has already been granted a combined 100% disability evaluation.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities have resulted in a combined 100% schedular rating, making the issue of a separate TDIU moot.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic major depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0507135
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability for treatment purposes only under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 17, as additional evidence and examination are needed.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient compliance with previous remand instructions and the need for additional medical opinions regarding the appellant's psychiatric disabilities, including PTSD.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and the need for an addendum opinion regarding the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorders.
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