The Veteran's service-connected disabilities were found to have rendered him unemployable as of April 27, 1999, one year prior to the receipt of his claim for TDIU.
The deciding factor: It was factually ascertainable that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities had resulted in unemployability as of April 27, 1999, based on his minimal income from employment during the previous year.
- Claimed conditions
- partial glossectomy with speech impediment, multiple facial scars, chronic anxiety reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 28, 2012
- Citation
- 1211266
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The veteran's chronic anxiety reaction is productive of occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, warranting a 70 percent evaluation.
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