I am filing for Individual Unemployability

Your rating might be accurate but it might not be telling the whole story.

What happens when you look at the VA's symptom list for your current rating, and it turns out that your percentage is accurate?

Here’s what many Veterans don't realize:

1. ‍Your 70% Rating May Be Accurate: For Mental Disorders, the next step up from 70% is 100%. There is a good chance that your symptoms are not severe enough to fall into that category.
2. Employment Challenges Are Often Overlooked: Standard C&P exams focus on symptoms, not on how those symptoms specifically prevent you from maintaining consistent, substantially gainful employment in the civilian workforce.‍
3. There is Another Path Forward: If you can't secure or maintain substantially gainful employment because of your service-connected disability, you may be eligible for Individual Unemployability.  Individual Unemployability offers the equivalent compensation of 100% SC disability.

How can I get Individual Unemployability?

We would need to identify and document the specific ways your condition prevents consistent employment - factors that other examiners often miss or undervalue. To effectively do this, we would need comprehensive documentation, including:

1. Records Review - You would need to provide me with recent medical records and employment records.
2. ‍Independent Medical Examination (IME) - We would go through the IME process to accurately assess your current symptoms and level of impairment.
3. Nexus Letter - I would provide a professional opinion as to how your symptoms are negatively impacting your ability to work.