Say a vet has several service connected issues depression already rated 30% and is on ssdi for SC physical conditions.
Tdiu is awarded due to mental health examiner opinion that all these do cause the vet to be unemeployable. No mention of ssdi, not sure if that is normal.
Question: Does the 50% in the rating schedule seem to say 'unemployable' basically unable to work?
thanks for your thoughts.
Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial,
circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once
a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment
of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned
material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired
abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in
establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships ............... 50
Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease inwork
efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational
tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine
behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms
as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or
less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as
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Say a vet has several service connected issues depression already rated 30% and is on ssdi for SC physical conditions.
Tdiu is awarded due to mental health examiner opinion that all these do cause the vet to be unemeployable. No mention of ssdi, not sure if that is normal.
Question: Does the 50% in the rating schedule seem to say 'unemployable' basically unable to work?
thanks for your thoughts.
Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial,
circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once
a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment
of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned
material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired
abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in
establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships ............... 50
Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work
efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational
tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine
behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms
as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or
less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as
forgetting names, directions, recent events) 30
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