The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected PTSD is reasonably certain to continue throughout his lifetime, warranting a permanent total disability rating and thus meeting the criteria for basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance under Chapter 35 of Title 38, United States Code.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence shows the veteran's PTSD with depression has been chronic and unresponsive to treatment, indicating a reasonable certainty that it will continue throughout his lifetime.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Residuals of a gunshot wound to the right forearm with limitation of extension, Incomplete paralysis of the right musculospiral nerves
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 13, 2002
- Citation
- 0201485
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's PTSD was granted a 70 percent rating prior to March 7, 2022, while other claims were denied.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and GAD, as well as tinnitus.
- 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.
- Granted
The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation (SMC) based on the need for regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities.
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