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
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0613219
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 734 · Granted: 9% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected organic brain syndrome and atherosclerotic coronary artery disease require care or assistance on a regular basis to protect him from the hazards of his daily environment, resulting in an award of SMC based on need for aid and attendance. However, he does not meet the criteria for SMC based on housebound status.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim of service connection for organic brain syndrome was granted, and her initial compensable rating for erectile dysfunction was denied.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a mental disorder, finding that there is no current diagnosis of a psychiatric disability and that his organic brain syndrome was not aggravated by military service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development to consider whether the Appellant is entitled to DIC benefits for the cause of the Veteran's death under 38 U.S.C. § 1310 and to enhanced DIC benefits under 38 U.S.C. § 1311(a)(2).
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