BVA Decisions on TDIU

113 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving TDIU — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

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• CAVCCase 95-984 — Dismissed June 14, 2001
  Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed the Court's decision that the November 1972 VARO decision did not contain CUE, but remanded the matter to determ...
• CAVCCase 97-1192 — Dismissed / Affirmed / Vacated Sep 6, 2000
  The appellant argues as follows: (1) that the Federal Government failed to provide documentation of his exposure to Agent Orange and biological and chemical warfare agents (Argumen...
• CAVCCase 91-1082 — Vacated March 22, 1993
  The Board concluded that there was no evidence of MS in service or within the seven-year period for establishing service connection for MS on a presumptive basis (see 38 U....
• BVACase 08-0089 — Vacated
  Bond argued that his February 1998 submission was actually new and material evidence relating to the earlier, May 1997, rating decision and should have been assessed as such by the...
• CAVCCase 91-1288 — Denied May 27, 1994
  KRAMER, Judge: Appellant, Gool Counts, appeals the April 15, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not...
• CAVCCase 97-1971 — Granted / Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded June 3, 2003
  On May 29, 2001, the Federal Circuit reaffirmed that a breach of the duty to assist cannot amount to CUE and concluded that the appellant's contention that the RO's failure to adju...
• BVACase 14-2811 — Denied
  Kisor’s case, the Board concluded that two ser- vice department records, which were received in 2006 and 2007, were not “relevant” under the regulation because they did not pertain...
• CAVCCase 92-970 — Unknown April 17, 1996
  On May 21, 1992, the Board denied a schedular evaluation greater than 10% for the service- connected left mandible condition but granted an additional 10% evaluation for that condi...
• CAVCCase 01-467 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded / Vacated October 22, 2003
  First, the Board found that, with respect to the MGs in the appellant's left shoulder, the evidence shows that the residuals of the GSW to the left shoulder involve only MG I and n...
• BVACase 23029996 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded May 23, 2023
  The additional documentation submitted since the September 2009 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claim of ser...
• CAVCCase 96-536 — Denied / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 12, 1999
  On June 9, 1989, the Board denied service connection for Meniere's disease....
• CAVCCase 94-764 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated April 29, 1997
  In a December 1987 decision, the Board denied the § 351 DIC claim, finding that the "veteran's death was irrespective of the treatment provided and any factor arising from the trea...
• CAVCCase 90-1511 — Affirmed / Remanded / Reversed / Vacated March 31, 1994
  The appellant claims that the BVA erred in determining that the severity of his condition had not increased, and that the Board failed to address his entitlement to a higher rating...
• CAVCCase 96-1637 — Vacated / Denied / Dismissed / Granted Sep 15, 2000
  In addition, the Board noted that in order for the appellant to qualify for DIC the veteran must have been in receipt of a 100% rating for 5 10 years prior to his death and that, i...
• BVACase 20005180 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 24, 2024
  14-09 226A DATE: September 24, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for a low back disorder is reopened and to this extent onl...
• CAVCCase 01-1917 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated / Granted March 3, 2006
  § 7261(b)(2), lead to the following conclusions: (1) In Dingess, the Board erred in not providing adequate notice on how to substantiate a TDIU claim, and, applying the rule of pre...
• CAVCCase 91-1688 — Unknown September 16, 1993
  In its July 1991 decision, the Board denied service connection for (1) defective hearing of the left ear, (2) residuals of an injury to the right index finger, (3) pseudofolliculit...
• CAVCCase 90-540 — Affirmed / Remanded February 7, 1992
  We find that the Veterans' Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs) (VA) breached its statutory duty to assist the veteran because it failed to try to obtain psychia...
• CAVCCase 97-1178 — Remanded / Denied / Reversed / Vacated August 17, 1999
  In an April 1978 BVA decision, the Board denied increased ratings for the veteran's already service-connected Pott's disease (inactive and previously rated as 60% disabling pursuan...
• CAVCCase 04-468 — Affirmed / Denied October 13, 2006
  McGee's appeal from a February 12, 2004, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied him an effective date earlier than April 15, 1999, for a grant of ser...
• BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023
  New and material evidence has not been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic migraine headaches, and the claim to reopen is denied....
• CAVCCase 91-1868 — Unknown November 5, 1993
  On February 23, 1981, the Board denied an increased evaluation for the service-connected right shoulder condition and denied service connection for the other conditions, including ...
• CAVCCase 96-1574 — Affirmed / Denied November 16, 1998
  In a November 3, 1973, BVA decision, the Board determined that "[t]he veteran does not have an identifiable disease entity involving the low back, thighs[,] and legs related to the...
• CAVCCase 90-1138 — Denied / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded May 18, 1993
  The appellant's primary contention on appeal is that the Board erred in failing to award a service-connected rating for beriberi or beriberi heart disease....
• BVACase 20-4075 — Unknown
  Be- cause the Veterans Court properly interpreted the new and material evidence rule in 38 C....
• BVACase 00-1574 — Unknown
  It declined, however, to assign an effective date of September 10, 1992, because the Board concluded that Voracek did not submit a timely NOD following the March 1993 Decision: Alt...
• CAVCCase 90-960 — Granted / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated / Remanded September 29, 1992
  Post-traumatic Stress Disorder When a veteran presents a well-grounded claim for service connection, the Secretary has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts pertinen...
• CAVCCase 01-1865 — Affirmed August 27, 2004
  KRAMER, Chief Judge: The appellant, through counsel, appeals an October 3, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision in which the Board denied an effective date prio...
• BVACase 23038858 — Granted / Denied / Remanded July 13, 2023
  19-09 657 DATE: July 13, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for adjustment disorder is reopened and to this extent only, the...
• CAVCCase 90-222 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated April 24, 1992
  The rating board concluded: "Veteran is not shown to be unemployable primarily because of [service-connected] condition....
• BVACase 25002467 — Denied February 20, 2025
  Thus, the Board finds that VA has satisfied the duty to assist....
• CAVCCase 90-1218 — Vacated March 2, 1993
  Watson appeals a July 9, 1990, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision which denied his previously disallowed claim for service connection for Buerger's disease on the g...
• CAVCCase 99-1390 — Affirmed August 20, 2002
  In the BVA decision presently on appeal, the Board found that because a September 1988 RO decision had denied service connection for PTSD (R....
• CAVCCase 01-1156 — Vacated / Remanded February 27, 2003
  The Board concluded that the appellant was receiving the maximum schedular ratings allowed for his conditions....
• BVACase 200901-107174 — Granted / Denied / Remanded March 26, 2024
  The Veteran was notified of the denial in an October 2016 letter and did not initiate an appeal or submit new and material evidence within one year....
• BVACase 23006286 — Denied / Remanded February 1, 2023
  The Veteran's cervical spine disability is not related to his active service....
• BVACase 23035794 — Denied June 23, 2023
  Addressing the Concerns of the January 2020 Joint Motion The January 2020 Joint Motion in this case states: "The parties agree that remand is required in this case because the Boar...
• CAVCCase 93-62 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 26, 1995
  In November 1982, the Board denied, on the following grounds, service connection for the veteran's heart disorder: Examinations prior to 1979 had not found evidence of left-side he...
• BVACase 190916-30775 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 1, 2024
  The rating of ten percent for right index finger scarring from July 31, 2006, to July 26, 2016, was not clearly erroneous, has already been restored, and since July 26, 2016, the r...
• CAVCCase 96-47 — Denied March 25, 1998
  In April 1993, after reviewing the appellant’s claim de novo, the Board denied service connection for a gastrointestinal condition....
• CAVCCase 91-87 — Reversed / Vacated / Denied December 3, 1992
  The Court holds that the Board's determination that the evidence most recently submitted by the veteran was not "new and material" was correct....
• BVACase 210114-136617 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 17, 2024
  If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the date the Board received the VA Form 10182, or (2) more than 90 d...
• BVACase 20-3293 — Unknown
  Because we conclude that the Veterans Court properly interpreted the benefit of the doubt rule under 38 U....
• CAVCCase 04-0093 — Remanded / Vacated November 15, 2006
  A medical board found him medically unfit for further military duty and recommended that he be referred to a physical evaluation board and transferred to a VA hospital....
• CAVCCase 95-1082 — Remanded / Reversed / Vacated June 23, 1999
  te for the assignment of a 50% schedular rating for service-connected PCS (claim 2), and found that new and material evidence had not been presented to reopen a previously and fina...
• CAVCCase 03-1276 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed August 5, 2005
  A December 30, 2002, Board decision denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death; the Board found that "[n]o service-connected disabilit...
• CAVCCase 92-473 — Unknown February 16, 1994
  The appellant contends that the BVA failed to support its decision with sufficient reasons or bases, and that the Secretary failed to fulfill his duty to assist....
• CAVCCase 90-1394 — Vacated / Remanded January 13, 1993
  A January 31, 1977, rating decision found that this evidence was not new and material evidence so as to reopen the veteran's claim....
• BVACase 20-7567 — Unknown
  He argued that the Board erroneously applied a preponder- ance of the evidence standard when he needed to show only that “it is at least as likely as not that his service[-]con- ne...
• CAVCCase 01-1489 — Vacated May 14, 2004
  Acosta asserts that the Board provided an inadequate statement of reasons or bases for its decision on the basis that it failed to address whether his March 1983 Substantive Appeal...
• BVACase 220615-252249 — Granted / Denied / Remanded August 25, 2025
  e present disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service-the so-called "nexus" requirement....
• CAVCCase 94-342 — Vacated August 30, 1995
  In the January 1994 BVA decision, the Board decided that "the preponderance of the evidence [was] against [the appellant's] appeal for an increased rating for [PTSD]....
• BVACase 23031314 — Dismissed / Granted / Denied / Remanded May 30, 2023
  The additional documentation submitted since the August 2009 and October 2012 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran'...
• CAVCCase 90-103 — Vacated September 15, 1993
  actor in the veteran's unemployment; to discuss the veteran's capacity for work; and to discuss the credibility of the veteran's sworn testimony as evidence....
• CAVCCase 96-1373 — Affirmed November 17, 1999
  6 In June 1996, the Board found that the appellant had failed to submit a well-grounded claim....
• CAVCCase 96-947 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 20, 1999
  Additionally, the Board concluded that the veteran had never filed a Substantive Appeal as to claims for service connection for varicose 2 veins of the right leg and for an increas...
• CAVCCase 01-1505 — Affirmed February 20, 2004
  The Chairman of the Board denied the motion in July 1995, and the appellant, in December 1995, filed a Notice of Appeal (NOA) with the Court....
• CAVCCase 97-679 — Denied / Reversed / Remanded / Dismissed / Vacated December 23, 1999
  A January 1979 BVA decision denied an increased rating for schizophrenia and denied a claim for a rating of total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU); although th...
• BVACase 220615-251909 — Denied / Granted / Remanded January 7, 2025
  Service Connection Generally, in order to prove service connection, there must be competent, credible evidence of (1) a current disability, (2) in-service incurrence or aggravation...
• CAVCCase 91-1948 — Vacated / Denied August 6, 1993
  Because the Board failed to provide adequate reasons or bases for its denial of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death and for its conclusion that the veteran was ...
• BVACase 230228-327199 — Denied March 27, 2025
  Duty to Assist VA has a duty to assist claimants in obtaining evidence to substantiate their claims until the time VA issues a notice of decision on a claim....
• BVACase 23045875 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded August 17, 2023
  New and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim of service connection for left shoulder impingement syndrome has not been presented....
• CAVCCase 98-1849 — Affirmed / Reversed June 29, 2004
  In the September 1998 Board decision here on appeal, the Board concluded that, on the basis of the law and evidence in existence at the time, both the July 1983 and January 1985 RO...
• BVACase 22059105 — Granted / Denied October 20, 2022
  New and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for Bell's Palsy on the left side of face, and the appeal is denied....
• DecisionCase 23031607 — Denied / Granted / Remanded May 31, 2023
  A medical link or nexus between the Veteran's back condition and an in-service incurrence has not been established; the Veteran's current back condition is not shown to have manife...
• CAVCCase 02-1814 — Remanded / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated September 22, 2006
  He contends that the Board erred in finding that he had received adequate notice under section 5103(a)....
• CAVCCase 03-2196 — Granted / Denied / Vacated / Remanded July 12, 2006
  In the decision on appeal, the Board denied an effective date earlier than April 15, 1992....
• CAVCCase 95-497 — Affirmed February 26, 1997
  a November 1973 effective date for total disability, and that found the appellant had not presented new and material evidence to reopen a claim for service connection for the cause...
• BVACase 23000407 — Denied / Granted January 4, 2023
  The preponderance of the evidence is against finding that the Veteran's respiratory disorder was causally related to any disease, injury, or incident during service; or related to ...
• BVACase 22-2575 — Remanded October 8, 2024
  2015 examination was inadequate for evaluation purposes and the Board's finding to the contrary was clearly erroneous") (emphasis added)....
• CAVCCase 93-288 — Affirmed November 21, 1994
  In a June 24, 1985, decision, the RO denied reopening of both the TDIU and chest-condition claims because new and material evidence had not been presented....
• CAVCCase 98-1825 — Affirmed / Granted October 24, 2000
  The appellant immediately filed a second NOD, but again did not address concerns, if any, that he had about any other SSA records he had not submitted with his claim....
• CAVCCase 96-1170 — Reversed / Affirmed September 7, 1999
  Baldwin asserted that the original denial of his claim constituted a failure on the part of VA in its duty to assist him, lacked adequate reasons or bases, and was violative of VA ...
• CAVCCase 95-444 — Denied March 21, 1997
  A well-grounded service-connection claim generally requires medical evidence of a current disability; medical or, in certain circumstances, lay evidence of in-service incurrence or...
• CAVCCase 90-1150 — Vacated / Dismissed / Granted / Reversed September 23, 1994
  8 is a finding of fact that the Court must affirm unless that determination is found to be 'clearly erroneous'"); Bledsoe v....
• CAVCCase 94-557 — Reversed / Denied / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed November 14, 1997
  A June 1979 RO decision granted a 30% rating for service-connected congestive heart failure, effective on July 15, 1978, and concluded that CDD and related muscle atrophy were not ...
• CAVCCase 03-1021 — Affirmed / Vacated / Dismissed / Remanded September 15, 2006
  In the first decision (Decision 1), the Board denied an effective date earlier than April 20, 1993, for the award of service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) an...
• CAVCCase 01-970 — Vacated / Remanded / Granted September 13, 2004
  O R D E R The appellant appeals pro se an April 16, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision in which the Board denied him payment of full disability compensation d...
• CAVCCase 90-142 — Unknown September 16, 1991
  Although the Board increased the veteran's rating for his service-connected disability from 10 percent to 30 percent, the Board failed to assess properly the veteran's condition in...
• BVACase 19-4116 — Dismissed / Reversed / Remanded
  Thus, the Court finds that the Board erred when it failed to address his contention that he has unad- judicated pending claims for service connection for generalized anxiety and ma...