The Veteran's anxiety disorder with depressive and paranoid features is totally disabling, warranting a 100 percent rating. The claim for TDIU was denied as the service-connected disability already warrants a total schedular rating.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the severity of the Veteran's symptoms, including hallucinations, depression, and social impairment, which rendered him totally disabled from an emotional, social, and industrial standpoint.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder with depressive and paranoid features, non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 26, 2009
- Citation
- 0907195
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,162 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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