The Board has granted a 70 percent evaluation for the veteran's post-traumatic psychoneurosis (identified as a generalized anxiety disorder with PTSD) effective from October 31, 2001.
The deciding factor: The evidence of record supports the grant of an increased rating to 70 percent for the service-connected psychiatric disability since it demonstrates symptoms that meet the criteria for such a rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Generalized anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 10, 2002
- Citation
- 0214060
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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.
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