The Board remands the claim for a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU) on an extraschedular basis under 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(b) to the Director of Compensation Service.
The deciding factor: There is sufficient evidence to substantiate a reasonable possibility that the Veteran is unemployable due to his service-connected major depressive disorder, but the Board cannot grant entitlement to TDIU under 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(b) in the first instance and must remand the claim for referral to VA's Director of Compensation Service.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2025
- Citation
- 25012627
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