The Board has restored the Veteran's entitlement to Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU) and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits under Chapter 35, effective January 1, 2019.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was not clear and convincing evidence indicating the Veteran was gainfully employed or engaged in substantial gainful employment at any time since TDIU was granted, thus restoring the TDIU and DEA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Unspecified
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2021
- Citation
- 21015720
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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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- Denied
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