Granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 1, 2004 for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered her permanently and totally disabled from January 1, 2004, which is earlier than the date of the claim for TDIU in September 2011.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090666
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