The Board denied the appellant's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, reiterating that the Veteran did not meet the schedular criteria and that his anxiety did not preclude him from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Board found no evidence that the Veteran's service-connected anxiety alone precluded him from obtaining and maintaining any form of substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and occupational experience, despite acknowledging some degree of occupational impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2025
- Citation
- 25007185
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,446 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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