The Board has granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected organic brain syndrome, effective from September 17, 1998. The earliest date as of which it was factually ascertainable that the veteran was unemployable due to service-connected disability was September 24, 1997.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran had been unable to maintain gainful employment since September 24, 1997, and this date was within one year prior to the receipt of her claim for TDIU. The earliest effective date allowed by law is September 24, 1997.
- Claimed conditions
- organic brain syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0613219
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased disability ratings and TDIU due to incomplete records being considered in the determination of his degree of disability.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from obtaining and maintaining gainful employment given his background, education, and previous work experience.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeal to reopen a claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability, including schizophrenia, manic depression and organic brain syndrome is denied. Service connection for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/Attention Defect Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is also denied.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and SMC at the housebound rate are granted. The initial rating of 100 percent for organic brain syndrome, initial compensable rating for headaches, and SMC based on housebound status are all granted as of June 26, 1969. The issues regarding loss of skull and head scar remain unresolved.
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