The Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) was received on August 17, 2011. The Board denied an earlier effective date because the claim was not raised until after the initial TDIU grant.
The deciding factor: The claim for TDIU was filed in 2011 and no prior intent to file a TDIU claim was found in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19124043
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Decisions by this judge: 1,762 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development to determine if he had substantially gainful employment prior to June 2010, which would affect his claim for an earlier effective date for Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a failure to properly address the Veteran's current address. The issue of entitlement to an effective date earlier than June 21, 2010 for the grant of a TDIU is now pending.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's appeal is being remanded to the RO for further development and consideration of his claim for an earlier effective date for a grant of total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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