The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance from December 31, 2007. The TDIU was granted due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities preventing him from securing and following substantially gainful employment since December 31, 2007.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran’s service-connected PTSD prevented him from performing gainful employment for which his education and occupational experience would otherwise qualify him since December 31, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Ischemic heart disease, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- April 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19130801
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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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