The Board has dismissed the appeal as to the claim of entitlement to an effective date earlier than May 26, 2021 for the award of a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU). The July 2023 decision is final and binding with respect to this issue.
The deciding factor: The Board found that re-adjudicating the merits of the effective date issue would violate the finality of its own decision due to the same factual record being used, and thus dismissed the appeal as moot.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2026
- Citation
- A26005635
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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