Citation Nr: 21042177
Decision Date: 07/12/21	Archive Date: 07/12/21

DOCKET NO. 10-45 561
DATE: July 12, 2021

REMANDED

Entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to March 26, 2014, is remanded.

REASONS FOR REMAND

The Veteran had active duty service from February 1985 to March 1986.

This matter comes before the Board of Veterans Appeals (Board) on appeal from a rating decision issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO) in September 2009. A transcript of the Veteran's testimony at a hearing before the undersigned Veterans Law Judge in October 2013 is of record. The claim was most recently remanded by the Board in December 2020. 

1. Entitlement to a TDIU prior to March 26, 2014 is remanded.

Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA) document that the Veteran reported VA vocation rehabilitation in February 2002. The Veteran's complete vocational rehabilitation file should be associated with the record on remand.

The Veteran should also be given another opportunity to complete a VA Form      21-8940 showing the dates and the hours worked per week for any place she worked or volunteered from April 2009 to March 26, 2014. 

The matter is REMANDED for the following action:

1. Obtain the Veteran's complete vocational rehabilitation file and upload it into the record.

2. Give the Veteran another opportunity to complete a VA Form 21-8940 showing the dates and the hours worked per week for any place she worked or volunteered from April 2009 to March 26, 2014.

3. If the claim remains denied, issue a supplemental statement of the case.

 

K. A. BANFIELD

Veterans Law Judge

Board of Veterans' Appeals

Attorney for the Board	D. Van Wambeke, Counsel

The Board's decision in this case is binding only with respect to the instant matter decided. This decision is not precedential and does not establish VA policies or interpretations of general applicability. 38 C.F.R. § 20.1303.