The Board has determined that the service member was unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected disabilities, which rendered him unemployable. As such, he is granted accrued benefits for TDIU.
The deciding factor: The service member's service-connected conditions, including paranoid schizophrenia, atrophic dermatitis, and bronchial asthma, made it impossible for him to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia, atrophic dermatitis, bronchial asthma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- February 10, 2012
- Citation
- 1205164
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