Your TDIU claim has been resolved in full. The VA granted your request for a total disability rating based on individual unemployment (TDIU) effective June 18, 2024.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's TDIU was granted based on the combined effect of his service-connected psychiatric and orthopedic disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric, Orthopedic
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 3, 2026
- Citation
- A26009718
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically to obtain the Veteran's Social Security Administration (SSA) employment and earnings history from 2020 forward.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation from May 16, 2009, to March 10, 2013. The Board granted TDIU and DEA benefits during this period.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities did not preclude gainful employment prior to December 15, 2015.
- Granted
The RO proposed to discontinue the Veteran's TDIU and DEA benefits, but found that she had been substantially and gainfully employed for at least twelve months. The RO then granted restoration of her TDIU rating.,The RO also restored the Veteran's DEA benefits as they were based on a permanent total service-connected disability.
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