The Board has reopened the claim for PTSD due to new and material evidence. The left knee disability remains rated at 20 percent, with a separate rating of 10 percent for arthritis.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the veteran established a diagnosis of PTSD and linked it to service, reopening the claim. The left knee condition is currently rated as 20 percent disabling due to pain and swelling, but also has some limitation of motion that warrants a separate rating for arthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Degenerative Joint Disease of the Left Knee
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0112999
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date prior to September 1, 2023, for a 70 percent rating for PTSD.
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