The Board has granted an effective date of November 7, 2018 for Total Disability Rating for Individual Unemployability (TDIU) and Eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 35 (DEA). The Veteran was not in receipt of a total service-connected disability prior to this date.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to obtain or maintain substantial gainful employment as of November 7, 2018 and granted an earlier effective date for TDIU from that date. As the Veteran did not have a 'total' rating prior to this date, there is no legal basis for an earlier effective date for DEA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric disorder, Low back disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- October 11, 2024
- Citation
- A24065345
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Decisions by this judge: 2,200 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a low back disability and an increased rating for his acquired psychiatric disorder. The Board found that there was no evidence linking the current disabilities to military service.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected low back disability alone does not prevent him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a low back disability and bilateral hip disability, finding that there was no evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased disability evaluation and effective dates are being remanded due to the need for a new VA examination to address the severity of his low back disability, including whether he has experienced incapacitating episodes of IVDS.
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