The appeal for total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU) has been rendered moot and is dismissed.
The deciding factor: There would be duplicate counting of disabilities if TDIU were awarded when the Veteran has already been assigned a 100 percent schedular rating for his psychiatric disability, which is his only service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2023
- Citation
- 23000924
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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