The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected anxiety reaction is severe enough to prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation, and thus grants a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder rendered him irritable, cognitively impaired, anxious, and difficult to deal with in a commercial or industrial setting due to his cognitive and emotional functioning related to past traumas during service and residuals of his stroke.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0608251
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Board denied the Veteran's motions to reverse or revise prior rating decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding no such errors in the March 1971 and August 2004 decisions.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted a 70 percent rating for anxiety reaction prior to April 25, 2016 and an effective date of January 2, 2009 for the grant of TDIU.
- Granted
The Veteran's death was caused by a myocardial infarction, which is considered service-connected due to his pre-existing psychiatric condition and malaria.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is being remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining medical records and providing a VA examination.
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