The Board has granted service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder and assigned a 30 percent evaluation. The effective date of the grant is November 17, 1997.
The deciding factor: The appellant's symptoms have created occupational impairment, with intermittent periods of inability to perform tasks due to depression, anxiety, chronic sleep impairment, and mild memory loss.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0003530
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