Granted
The Board granted a total disability rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and basic eligibility to Dependents' Education Assistance benefits.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including bilateral hearing loss, recurrent major depressive disorder, migraines, and tinnitus, rendered him unable to secure and follow any form of substantially gainful employment consistent with his education and work experience.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Recurrent major depressive disorder with mild anxious distress and mood congruent psychotic features, Migraines, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 6, 2025
- Citation
- 25012540
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