The Veteran's TDIU claim is dismissed as moot because she has a combined 100 percent schedular rating for rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions, making her unemployability due to service-connected disabilities moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran meets the schedular criteria for a 100% disability rating but was not unemployable prior to March 25, 2016, when she received a combined 100% schedular rating. The issue of TDIU is therefore moot as her disabilities do not meet the criteria for special monthly compensation.
- Claimed conditions
- rheumatoid arthritis, migraine headaches, left shoulder, right shoulder, low back sprain, left elbow, right elbow, rheumatoid degenerative arthritis, left wrist, right wrist, left hand and fingers, right hand and fingers, left knee, right knee, boutonniere deformity, right long finger, bilateral tinnitus, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2018
- Citation
- 18143964
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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