The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD and granted it, based on new evidence submitted since the previous denial in November 1994.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted that bears directly upon the specific matter under consideration (PTSD) and is significant enough to warrant a review of the merits of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Chronic Headaches, Pepcid Acid Disease (PUD), Chloracne
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2002
- Citation
- 0208916
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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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- Partly granted
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- Partly granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 70 percent for PTSD from September 27, 2022, and denied the claims for a compensable rating for urethral injury with urinary incontinence and right ear hearing loss. The claim for service connection for chronic headaches as secondary to the right shoulder was also granted.
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