BVA Decisions on TDIU

128 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 12-2616 — Remanded / Reversed / Vacated 1969-04-01
  The appellant and, on remand,the Board determined the RO decision to be void ab initio,and the 10%was restored,effective April 1, 1969....
• CAVCCase 19-0001 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2018-09-04
  A May 2009 private nexus opinion notes that [d]ue to the impossibility to use [the right] arm the appellant....
• CAVCCase 18-1103 — Vacated / Remanded 2018-01-18
  The examiner also noted that the appellant had described the severity of his PTSD as mild,but the examiner gave the appellant the benefit of the doubt that his symptoms wax and wan...
• CAVCCase 21-2416 — Affirmed 2020-12-10
  In January 2020,the Board denied the claim for an effective date earlier than December 13, 2005,for service connection for bronchial asthma....
• CAVCCase 11-3732 — Affirmed / Remanded 2011-05-02
  The Board denied disability compensation for headaches,noting that (1)evidence demonstrating headaches in service related the headaches to the appellant's sinus problems, and the a...
• CAVCCase 20-2118 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2020-02-04
  VA also obtained a thyroid examination;the VA examiner noted that the appellant was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2009 and opined that the condition was not related to the nonst...
• CAVCCase 23-5618 — Affirmed 2024-11-25
  McDonough ,the appellant argues that remand is required for the Board to use the correct test for 'employment in a protected environment,'that his employment did or did not shield ...
• CAVCCase 23-5486 — Denied / Remanded 2025-03-31
  In April 2021,the Board remanded the case for an additional medical opinion, noting that the October 2020 medical opinion did not address the questions posed in the Board's remand ...
• CAVCCase 11-0325 — Affirmed 2011-01-03
  The appellant appears to argue that the Board's determinations that he was not entitled to VA benefits for a left knee disability,sling palsy,and trauma to the left side of the wai...
• CAVCCase 12-1845 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded 2012-05-21
  For the reasons that follow,the Court will reverse the Board's finding that the veteran did not submit new and material evidence sufficient to reopen his 1 The Board referred to a ...
• CAVCCase 24-4510 — Unknown 2025-09-09
  PIETSCH, Judge : the appellant ,through counsel,appeals an April 4, 2024,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that (1) denied service connection for upper extremity neurologic...
• CAVCCase 15-3657 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed / Affirmed 2015-05-28
  Finally,the Board denied effective dates earlier than March 5,2009,for the grants of service connection for right ear hearing loss and tinnitus....
• CAVCCase 21-2635 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-03-25
  The RO advised the appellant that [e]fforts to obtain [his] service treatment records from all potential sources were unsuccessful and that [t]he [NPRC]reported that the records ma...
• CAVCCase 22-3160 — Affirmed 2022-02-03
  In an April 2019 decision, the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than August 17,2011,for the grant of TDIU for accrued-benefits purposes....
• CAVCCase 22-464 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-10-28
  The appellant , through counsel,appeals an October 28,2021,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied service connection for a disability manifested by me...
• CAVCCase 10-1922 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 2010-05-26
  Because the Secretary concedes,and the Court agrees, that the Board provided inadequate reasons or bases for its determination that new and material evidence had not been received,...
• CAVCCase 04-2310 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 2009-05-11
  The appellant perfected an appeal to the Board,and in August 1999,the Board denied a disability rating greater than 30%for his PTSD and denied entitlement to a TDIU rating....
• CAVCCase 22-7547 — Affirmed 2022-11-29
  There must be a nexus of auditory damage to relate current hearing loss to military noise and not another etiology....
• CAVCCase 95-984 — Dismissed 2001-06-14
  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 22-4895 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-07-11
  A VA examiner in October 2013 concluded that the appellant's adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood was less likely than not related to service....
• CAVCCase 18-1440 — Affirmed 2017-11-28
  The RO also determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen a claim for disability compensation for a personality disorder,previously claimed as a mental...
• CAVCCase 03-0221 — Affirmed / Remanded 2002-10-07
  The appellant's request for revision on the basis that the 1971 Board failed to consider the possible application of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (...
• CAVCCase 24-0597 — Reversed 2025-04-29
  In a July 2010 Statement of the Case (SOC),the AOJ again declined to reopen claims for service connection for a bilateral knee condition and back condition,finding no new and mater...
• CAVCCase 18-4445 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2018-04-20
  First,we are asked to decide whether the Board failed to discuss medical evidence showing that PVD of the left lower extremity had first manifested in January 2006 warranting an ea...
• CAVCCase 21-5718 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-04-30
  For the following reasons,the Court will vacate the Board's decision to the extent that the Board failed to address the reasonably raised issue of entitlement to secondary service ...
• CAVCCase 20-3955 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-02-13
  The Board denied entitlement to (1)a disability rating in excess of 10%for left knee meniscectomy under Diagnostic Code 5257; (2)a rating in excess of 10%for limitation of left kne...
• CAVCCase 21-3087 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2021-01-19
  The matter 3 returned to the Board in April 2009,and the Board denied the appellant's claim for benefits for a low back disability....
• CAVCCase 04-0584 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed / Reversed 2009-10-02
  In my opinion he is allergic to certain paints and vapo[r]and these occa[s]ional respiratory symptoms are not related to the exposure of fumes in Gulf War....
• CAVCCase 23-4103 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded 1956-11-02
  VA twice declined to reopen the veteran's claim,finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted....
• CAVCCase 13-1245 — Vacated / Reversed / Remanded 2015-11-18
  Specifically,the Board found that the October 1973 RO decision became final when the RO denied the substance of the hearing loss claim in September 2003 and the veteran failed to a...
• CAVCCase 97-1192 — Affirmed / Vacated 2000-04-25
  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 15-2247 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2015-05-14
  The appellant ,appeals through counsel a May 14, 2015,decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)that,among other things, denied service connection for a back disability aft...
• CAVCCase 12-0393 — Vacated / Remanded 2011-10-14
  In December 1981,the Board denied the appellant entitlement to disability benefits for a left knee disability....
• CAVCCase 91-1082 — Vacated 1980-10-12
  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....
• CAVCCase 22-4979 — Unknown 2022-06-06
  The appellant signed an application for expeditious discharge,acknowledging that the medical board found him, because of disability,unfit for retention,and that he waived his right...
• CAVCCase 17-3135 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-08-02
  The examiner also concluded that the appellant's in-service back muscle strain and muscle spasm had resolved without residuals,and that such conditions did not cause and were not r...
• CAVCCase 20-7178 — Affirmed 2020-06-25
  In the June 2020 decision on appeal,the Board denied an initial disability rating greater than 50%for PTSD and an effective date earlier than November 16,2012,for the award of SMC(...
• CAVCCase 23-4291 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-12-30
  The Board found that [t]he [v]eteran's PTSD more nearly approximated occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, and the Board noted that his symp...
• CAVCCase 21-5427 — Unknown 2021-07-15
  The veteran appealed to the Board,and in a March 2006 decision,the Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss....
• CAVCCase 21-0814 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-01-19
  The same month, the Board denied 1 When an unlisted condition is encountered it will be permissible to rate under a closely related disease or injury in which not only the function...
• CAVCCase 17-3439 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded 2019-08-09
  155 (2017): 2 (1)entitlement to a total disability rating based on 1 There is no dispute between the parties that, when the Board determined that no further action is necessary,....
• CAVCCase 24-2039 — Unknown 2025-05-07
  The Secretary concedes the Board erred in denying a TDIU....
• CAVCCase 20-3257 — Unknown 2020-02-06
  LAURER, Judge : United States Army veteran appeals,through counsel,a February 6,2020,Board of Veterans�Appeals (Board)decision determining that there was no new and material eviden...
• CAVCCase 23-3939 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-02-28
  In August 2020,the Board determined that new and material evidence had been received to reopen the claim for service connection for a cervical spine disorder, and the Board remande...
• CAVCCase 21-3036 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-02-02
  On February 2,2021,the Board denied a rating in excess of 20%for the back disability, including a separate rating for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy prior to August 1...
• Fed. Cir.Case 08-0089 — Vacated 2011-10-07
  The appellant 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 su...
• CAVCCase 23-4881 — Unknown 2025-01-30
  In his initial brief,the appellant argued that in dismissing his claims,the Board failed to comply with the Court's January 2023 remand instructions and thus left his claims unreso...
• CAVCCase 10-2287 — Affirmed 2010-03-16
  The appellant ,appeals through counsel that part of the March 16,2010,decision of the Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)that determined that new and material evidence had not been p...
• CAVCCase 19-8155 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-08-13
  In his informal brief, the appellant does not challenge the Board's denial of an earlier effective date for the award of benefits of bilateral instability of the knees,or the Board...
• CAVCCase 23-6889 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-12-30
  The Board noted that the 2011 claim was for shin splints....
• CAVCCase 23-5933 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-05-30
  In July 2019, the Board denied service connection for a right hip condition and degenerative arthritis of the right knee....
• CAVCCase 91-1288 — Unknown 1945-12-10
  KRAMER, Judge: the appellant appeals the April 15, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not been subm...
• CAVCCase 15-4758 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2015-08-24
  The Board also granted the appellant's claim for entitlement to service connection for bilateral tinnitus and assigned a disability rating of 10%and reopened and remanded his claim...
• CAVCCase 20-4336 — Affirmed 2020-05-19
  To the extent the Board denied a rating higher than 20%,the appellant does not raise any argument concerning that matter,and the Court will also dismiss the appeal as to that aband...
• CAVCCase 19-2640 — Reversed / Affirmed / Vacated 2021-04-16
  at 79,and he contended that when assigning the effective date VA had failed to consider and correctly apply 38 C....
• CAVCCase 21-0372 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-10-07
  Also,in denying a higher rating for coronary artery disease,the Board noted that the appellant's reporting of his symptoms is credible....
• CAVCCase 23-7340 — Granted / Denied In Part 2025-04-10
  The appellant sustained to his head and neck 2 Case:23-7340 Page: 3 of 21 Filed:04/10/2025 in August 1965 were not service connected because he did not enter active service until F...
• CAVCCase 06-488 — Vacated 2005-12-30
  HAGEL, Judge : the appellant appeals through counsel a December 30, 2005, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied service connection for post- traumat...
• CAVCCase 22-0960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2021-11-24
  Later that month,VA simply found that no new and material evidence was submitted to reopen a previously denied head injury claim....
• CAVCCase 97-1971 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded 1997-07-07
  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...
• CAVCCase 21-8248 — Unknown 2021-12-01
  In a July 2017 rating decision,the RO declined to reopen the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder,claimed as nerves, depression,anxiety,and post-trauma...
• CAVCCase 22-7156 — Unknown 2022-08-19
  The appellant's depression was not related to service and the RO denied service connection for PTSD based on insufficient evidence of an in-service stressor....
• CAVCCase 09-4612 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2009-09-03
  On May 23,1989,the Board denied a disability rating for headaches in excess of 10%....
• CAVCCase 22-6636 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-02-21
  at 920,and opined that the appellant's hypertension was not related to his sinusitis....
• CAVCCase 20-4504 — Unknown 2020-03-05
  PIETSCH, Judge :The appellant,the appellant, through counsel,appeals a March 5, 2020,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied (1)a disability rating in ...
• CAVCCase 19-6325 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2019-05-17
  The appellant argues that (1)VA failed to evaluate his conditions on an extraschedular basis;(2)VA failed to consider his headaches condition in relation to his 1999 application fo...
• CAVCCase 18-5935 — Affirmed 2018-07-03
  The RO denied his claims for benefits for COPD,hepatitis C,and PTSD and found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the previously denied claim for benefi...
• CAVCCase 23-4293 — Remanded / Vacated 2024-08-09
  In April 2023,the appellant requested another 60-day extension of time,until July 4, 2023,to submit evidence and argument,but the Board denied the request later that month,finding ...
• CAVCCase 24-0265 — Remanded 2025-05-14
  In a September 2015 male-reproductive-system examination,the examiner found no current disability....
• CAVCCase 21-5985 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2021-06-11
  First,the Board determined that the December 2011 rating decision that denied entitlement to benefits for bilateral flat feet was final because the appellant had not appealed it....
• CAVCCase 24-7841 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 2025-09-30
  In May 2023,the Board denied entitlement to (1)an effective date prior to December 9, 2014,for the award of benefits for bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy;(2) a rating in exc...
• CAVCCase 20-4067 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2020-04-22
  In October 2006,the Board denied entitlement to higher disability ratings for the appellant's right shoulder disabilities....
• CAVCCase 18-4075 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-11-30
  Additionally,the Board found that a December 1999 rating decision denying service connection for right thigh hematoma residuals was final;found that the appellant submitted new and...
• CAVCCase 07-0693 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated 2007-03-02
  In that decision,the Board determined that the ratings assigned (for various time periods)for the appellant's knee conditions were appropriate and that increased ratings were,there...
• CAVCCase 22-0363 — Affirmed 2011-01-22
  The parties filed a joint motion for remand wherein they agreed that (1)the issue of entitlement to TDIU was reasonably raised prior to 2008,(2)the Board erred by finding that TBI ...
• CAVCCase 21-1298 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2020-11-12
  3 He underwent a VA eye examination in March 2017,and the examiner found that the appellant's glaucoma requires continual treatment and that the appellant has advanced visual field...
• CAVCCase 07-1699 — Affirmed / Vacated 2007-05-24
  The appellant ,appeals a May 24,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied her claims for (1) entitlement to service connection for the cause of her h...
• CAVCCase 17-0731 — Affirmed / Remanded 2017-02-06
  The examiner also concluded that the appellant's urinary frequency is not related to her back disability....
• CAVCCase 21-0365 — Unknown 2020-11-05
  He also explained that the veteran's left shoulder condition was caused by use of a cane to stabilize a gait abnormality created by the left ankle injury and opined that both condi...
• CAVCCase 14-2557 — Affirmed 2014-05-15
  With respect to his cervical spine disability,he contends that the Board misapplied the benefit of the doubt doctrine, mischaracterized the evidence,and erred in making an adverse ...