Your service-connected Long QT Syndrome is rated at 100 percent, and you are already receiving special monthly compensation (SMC) for this condition. Therefore, your claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is dismissed as moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected Long QT Syndrome is rated at 100%, which meets the schedular requirements for TDIU. Additionally, the Veteran has SMC under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s).
- Claimed conditions
- Long QT Syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 19, 2018
- Citation
- 18159399
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
What you can do next
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