The Veteran is granted a rating of total disability due to individual unemployability based upon service-connected disorders (TDIU) effective from May 24, 2016 until prior to August 14, 2020.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment after his last day of full-time employment on May 23, 2016.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a traumatic brain injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 26, 2024
- Citation
- 24004227
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of a traumatic brain injury, a rating in excess of 20 percent for a left shoulder disability, and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities for further evidentiary development.
- Granted
The Board granted separate evaluations for a psychiatric disability, the residuals of a traumatic brain injury, and peripheral vestibular disorder, an effective date of April 16, 2020, for the 30 percent evaluation for peripheral vestibular disorder, a TDIU due solely to peripheral vestibular disorder, and SMC under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s).
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD and for residuals of a traumatic brain injury, finding that there was no evidence to support these claims.
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