The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability, and therefore grants a total disability rating by reason of individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his psychiatric disorders and hearing impairments, render him unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, mastoiditis with vertigo and cerebellar gait, bilateral defective hearing, post-operative perforation of the right tympanic membrane with tinnitus, left wrist scar, chronic left wrist pain, otitis media, left wrist ganglion cyst
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- August 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19161284
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What this means for you
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