The Veteran's permanent and total disability rating was granted after the appellant reached her 26th birthday, making her ineligible for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits under Chapter 35 of Title 38.
The deciding factor: The appellant did not meet the eligibility criteria as she had already turned 26 years old before the effective date of the permanent and total disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Tourette syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2011
- Citation
- 1141152
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric condition, including personality disorder and PTSD, is granted as service connected. The Board found the evidence sufficient to grant service connection due to a qualifying event in service.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claims for service connection for Tourette syndrome and cervical spine disorder, but denied them on the merits. The claim for Tourette syndrome is remanded to obtain an opinion regarding whether it pre-existed service or was aggravated by service. The claim for cervical spine disorder is also remanded to obtain a medical opinion regarding its relationship to service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for higher evaluations of his service-connected PTSD and Tourette syndrome, as well as a claim for TDIU, are being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and development.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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