The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric and hand disabilities have rendered him unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric and hand disabilities preclude him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric, hand disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19104844
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Decisions by this judge: 2,669 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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