The Veteran's claim for a 100 percent rating for GAD with panic disorder prior to September 9, 2022 is granted.,Eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance based on permanent and total disability status as an ancillary benefit is established prior to September 9, 2022.
The deciding factor: The severity, frequency, and duration of the Veteran's psychiatric symptoms more closely approximated the criteria for a 100 percent rating. The evidence showed total occupational and social impairment.,VA has found the Veteran to be totally disabled as a result of GAD, which is sufficient to grant TDIU.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Panic Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 19, 2022
- Citation
- 22070235
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's combined disability rating is not 70 percent or higher, and he does not have a single service-connected disability rated at 60 percent or more. Therefore, the Veteran does not meet the schedular criteria for TDIU on a total disability evaluation based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU). However, his case is referred to the VA Director of Compensation and Pension for an extraschedular TDIU determination.
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