TDIU Denied Due To Old Age or Retirement? Can the VA have your claim for TDIU denied due to old age or retirement? The “Disability” in a “Total Disability due to Individual Unemployability” (TDIU) claim must be a service-related disability. According to 38 C.F.R. § 4.19, the claims examiner may not consider age in TDIU […]
Top 10 Reasons Lawyers Should Help With Individual Unemployability Denials Appealing Individual Unemployability Denials can be very complicated. We will outline the top 10 benefits you get by consulting an attorney for help. If you have at least one service-connected disability rated at least at 60%, OR, you have multiple service-connected disabilities, that have a […]
Let’s break this down so you are clear on what does unemployable mean to the VA. As the name implies, Total Disability due to Individual Unemployability (TDIU) has two basic prongs. Veterans must establish both prongs in order to obtain TDIU benefits. “Total Disability” is not synonymous with bedridden. This phrase means that the Veteran […]
TDIU Benefits for Veterans Who Cannot Work Due to PTSD Learn how TDIU benefits for veterans can help those who cannot work due to PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the oldest and most misunderstood battlefield wounds in the history of warfare. Sporadic cases go back to the Middle Ages. A soliloquy in […]
What Should I Do If I Was Denied Individual Unemployability Benefits? What to do if you are denied Individual Unemployability benefits. In a very brief nutshell, if at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Oftentimes, especially on an initial application, the VA claims examiner will deny total disability individual unemployability (TDIU) claims. Claims examiners […]
Three Helpful Categories of Evidence to Win TDIU Claims If your application for VA disability benefits was denied, you still have legal options. You can still win TDIU claims. Generally, disability benefits are available if the Veteran meets a certain set of medical and other criteria. However, as the name implies, Total Disability Due to […]
TDIU Eligibility Based on Marginal Employment and Protected/Sheltered Work Environments Are you concerned about your TDIU eligibility? For the most part, every VA disability claimant wants a 100% disability rating, but these ratings are hard to obtain. The claims examiner does not simply add all the claimant’s health issues together and arrive at a figure. […]
How to Select a TDIU Benefits Appeal Attorney If you are reading this blog, you or a loved one has probably been denied an initial VA TDIU benefits disability claim. Maybe the claim was denied altogether. Or perhaps the claims examiner did not give your claim full value. Additionally, if you are reading this, you […]
Combat Veterans have struggled with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other mental health related issues for centuries. Records of PTSD-like symptoms date back to the Middle Ages. The horrors of World War I took PTSD-like symptoms to another level. New weapons meant new brain injuries. For example, in the years leading up to that […]
If you are a veteran with service-connected disabilities that prevent you from maintaining substantially gainful employment, you may be entitled to Individual Unemployability (IU) benefits, which provide compensation at the 100% disability rate, even if your combined disability rating is less than 100%. As of December 2018, the monthly compensation rate for a 100% disability […]
