The Veteran is granted a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) based on his service-connected disabilities, which include an unspecified depressive disorder, skin conditions, and a left index finger condition. The effective date will be determined by the AOJ.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to physical and psychiatric limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified depressive disorder with anxious distress, tinea versicolor and folliculitis, residuals fracture, right thumb, residuals of fracture, left index finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 29, 2023
- Citation
- 23019329
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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.
What you can do next
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Board has granted effective dates of March 25, 2021 for the grant of service connection for tinnitus and other specified depressive disorder with anxious distress.
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