The Board has determined that the effective date for the grant of service connection for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder should be November 18, 1981.
The deciding factor: A VA psychiatrist concluded that the veteran's entitlement to service connection for PTSD arose soon after combat and had existed at the time of his November 1981 hospitalization.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 30, 2003
- Citation
- 0308148
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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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