Partly granted
The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the service-connected acquired psychiatric disability and denied an increased rating for major depressive disorder, but remanded the issue of a rating in excess of 10 percent for GERD.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms caused total occupational impairment but not total social impairment, meeting the criteria for TDIU. However, his symptoms did not more closely approximate the level of impairment required for a disability rating higher than 70 percent for major depressive disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder, moderate with anxious distress and insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25094112
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