The Veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, and the claim for a rating in excess of 70 percent for major depressive disorder with traumatic brain injury cognitive, emotional, and behavioral residuals was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence supported that the combined effects of the Veteran's service-connected psychiatric and TBI-related disabilities precluded substantially gainful employment, but did not meet the criteria for a rating in excess of 70 percent for major depressive disorder with traumatic brain injury cognitive, emotional, and behavioral residuals.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder with traumatic brain injury cognitive, emotional, and behavioral residuals, headaches, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, chronic nonsuppurative otitis media
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25015626
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