The Board has granted a TDIU for the period from December 7, 2012, to August 21, 2016, and established basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance Benefits for the same period.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities met the schedular requirements for a TDIU and he was determined on vocational evaluation to be unemployable due to these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified depressive disorder, unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder with alcohol use disorder, hepatitis C, left wrist fifth metacarpal fracture residuals, upper back sebaceous cyst removal scar residuals and Sjorgen's syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- September 8, 2023
- Citation
- 23049891
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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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