The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for PTSD, effective from the date of service connection in December 1991. The issue of peripheral neuropathy based on Agent Orange exposure is not within its jurisdiction as it was not raised in the appeal.
The deciding factor: The veteran's PTSD symptoms have been rated at 50 percent since the grant of service connection, and no higher rating is warranted given his current level of disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Ulcerative Colitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- May 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0012354
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
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- Granted
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, as it needs a medical opinion addressing the nature and etiology of the condition prior to October 16, 2023.
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