If your disabilities are preventing you from maintaining substantially gainful employment, you may qualify for TDIU — and a vocational assessment can help prove it.
Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU) allows veterans to receive VA disability compensation at the 100% rate — even when their combined rating falls below 100% — if their service-connected conditions prevent substantially gainful employment.
The VA's standard question: Can you maintain substantially gainful employment? If your service-connected conditions make that impossible or unrealistic, TDIU may be warranted.
Rating minimums: Generally one condition at 60%+, or a combined rating of 70%+ with at least one condition at 40%. Extraschedular grants are also available under § 4.16(b) when circumstances warrant it.
The VA makes its own employability determination — but often without a vocational specialist. That determination may be based on a general reading of your records rather than a systematic analysis of what jobs you could realistically perform given your specific limitations.
An independent vocational assessment provides what the VA's process often lacks: a documented, methodologically sound analysis connecting your limitations to real-world occupational demands and labor market data.
Request a Free Case Fit CheckEvery assessment follows the same structured process to ensure clear, defensible conclusions.
We review your VA rating decisions, service medical records, and relevant treatment notes. We're looking at the limitations that are already established — pain levels, functional restrictions, medication side effects, cognitive impacts.
We clarify your past relevant work, education, and training — the foundation for analyzing transferable skills and the types of jobs you could realistically perform.
A 60–75 minute remote interview covers your current functional capacity, daily activities, pain patterns, and how your conditions affect your ability to work. This is conducted professionally and at your pace.
Using DOT job classifications, O*NET functional demands, and current labor statistics, we analyze whether the national job base is sufficiently eroded by your limitations.
A clear, cited report states our findings and conclusions. Methods are explained step by step so the VA rater or BVA judge can follow the reasoning. Delivered within 5–7 business days of your interview.
Add-ons available: Rush delivery · Supplemental declarations · Hearing testimony