The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder and individual unemployability, finding that new evidence did not support reopening of his claim. The veteran's hearing loss disability was found to be sufficiently disabling but not to render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the submitted evidence did not provide sufficient new and material evidence to reopen the service connection claim for post-traumatic stress disorder, as it failed to corroborate the veteran's claimed in-service stressors. The hearing loss disability was found to be sufficiently disabling but not to render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0310802
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