The Veteran's service-connected chronic anxiety disorder, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and specific phobia (claustrophobia), has been granted a 100% disability rating. The issue of entitlement to Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU) is moot due to the grant of a total rating for anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, and severe social avoidance, have resulted in total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Specific Phobia (claustrophobia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 30, 2024
- Citation
- A24028073
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What this means for you
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- Granted
The Veteran's PTSD, GAD, insomnia, and OCD are granted service connection. Service connection for ASD and ADHD is denied.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a rating higher than 70 percent for PTSD and OCD but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date prior to October 27, 2021 for a TDIU was denied as the evidence did not show he had been unemployable due to his service-connected disabilities prior to that date.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a 100% disability rating for PTSD with MDD and OCD was denied, while the claim for TDIU due to service-connected PTSD with MDD and OCD alone from January 2023 was granted.
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